The inauguration of mayor-elect Davit Minasyan took place at Wednesday’s session of the council of the Parakar enlarged community of Armenia’s Armavir Province.

The session began with a minute of silence in memory of the fallen soldiers.

Then the mayor took the oath of office.

As a result of the local elections in Parakar on December 5, the Country to Live party won ten seats in the village council, the "Davit Minasyan" bloc of parties—nine, and Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract Party—two.

First, Volodya Grigoryan, the candidate from the Country to Live party, was nominated for the post of village mayor, and was elected by ten votes. According to the Country to Live party, the law allows to elect by 40 percent the only candidate nominated for community leader.

After that, the Parakar village council members supporting Davit Minasyan’s candidacy came to the council, and they elected him village mayor, with 11 votes—which is more than 50 percent.

On December 23, supporters of the Country to Live party had gathered at the courtyard of the Parakar House of Culture, where the inauguration of their candidate for village mayor was to take place. But the police had not permitted them to enter the building, and therefore this inauguration had taken place outside.

But on the same day, the "Davit Minasyan" bloc of parties had filed a lawsuit demanding that the election results be declared invalid. And the Administrative Court ruled to declare invalid the results of the elections for the mayor of Parakar village.

At the January 9 session of the Council of Elders, Davit Minasyan, the joint candidate of the “Davit Minasyan” bloc and of the ruling Civil Contract (CC) factions, was elected the mayor of Parakar. Eleven members of the council of voted for his candidacy. The members of the “Country to Live” faction had 10 seats, but they gave them up and left the sessions’ hall.

It was announced that in the first 2.5 years of the next 5 years, Davit Minasyan will be the mayor, and for the next 2.5 years, Ludvig Gyulnazaryan, the CC candidate.