YEREVAN. – Ruling coalition’s Prosperous Armenia Party’s nominee Vardan Ghalumyan, 38, won Sunday’s mayoral elections in Ijevan city.Ghalumyan’s rival, the coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia candidate Varuzhan Nersisyan, 49, who is the city’s mayor for the past twelve years, lost to Ghalumyan by approximately 1,652 votes.

To note, elections between the two nominees were conducted under a fairly tense atmosphere, and the police had even detained several people.  Two men were called to the local police precinct because there was news of election bribe distribution, but they were subsequently released, since that news was not confirmed, the Police Department informed.