YEREVAN. – The losers in the elections must have a political will to congratulate the winning nominee, the ruling coalition’s Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP Karen Avagyan stated, during a press conference on Monday, reflecting on Sunday’s mayoral elections in Hrazdan city.  

In his words, these elections demonstrated that all political parties, which supported Sasun Mikayelyan, were unable to achieve victory, even by taking advantage of the privileges which the new Electoral Code had endowed.

In his turn, the press conference’s other speaker, opposition Heritage Party Parliamentary Faction leader Stepan Safaryan responded by noting that in reality RPA “defeated” the opposition, the elections, and the people alike, since the mechanism of election bribe was put into use.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, as a result of the mayoral elections held Sunday in Armenia’s Hrazdan City, Aram Danielyan—the incumbent Mayor and RPA member—defeated Sasun Mikayelyan—the former MP and Mayor, and opposition Armenian National Congress member.

According to final results of the elections, Danielyan received 13,079 votes, and Mikayelyan gathered 11,506 votes.  

All through the day, Sasun Mikayelyan’s campaign headquarters was informing about cases of voting fraud and election bribes, whereas Aram Danielyan’s headquarters was refuting this information.  

The voter turnout was at 57.86 percent.

Sasun Mikayelyan’s campaign headquarters announced that it will not appeal the election results.