Armenia
‘A blow to Armenia’s sovereignty’: reactions to the signed declaration in Washington
The declaration included a plan to create a route connecting Azerbaijan and its exclave Nakhchivan, through Armenian territory.
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Ruling party removes former Yerevan mayor from city council
A coalition led by the ruling Civil Contract party has removed former Yerevan mayor Hayk Marutyan from the city’s council, in addition to two other opposition council members. Marutyan and the two other council members were ousted from the council by the ruling party’s coalition on Wednesday, over accusations they had missed too many council sessions. The extraordinary session was boycotted by two out of three opposition factions sitting in the council. They were ousted by a Civil Contract a
2023 Elections in Armenia
Ruling party falls short of majority in Yerevan elections
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party has failed to win a majority in the Yerevan City Council elections, despite receiving most votes. Their main challenger, National Progress led by Hayk Marutyan, came in second place. The preliminary result of Sunday’s election gave Civil Contract 24 of 65 seats on the council, with 33% of the vote. This was a dramatic decline from the previous elections in 2018, when Hayk Marutyan led the party’s list, winning 81% of the vote. National Progress, now led
Armenia
Prime Minister Pashinyan bashes Yerevan elections opponent on Public TV
In an interview with Armenia’s Public TV, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has criticised Hayk Marutyan, a former mayor of Yerevan seeking to topple the ruling party in the city’s upcoming municipal elections and called for Armenians to vote for his party. On Monday night, Pashinyan was a guest on Public TV’s Interview with Petros Ghazaryan. He spoke about the situation on the Armenia–Azerbaijan border, the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, and relations with Moscow. However, the secon
Armenia
Ousted Yerevan mayor to challenge ruling party in City Council vote
Yerevan’s ex-mayor Hayk Marutyan has officially announced his intent to run for mayor again in the September City Council elections. He was ousted in December 2021 for ‘disloyalty’ to the ruling party. Marutyan announced his election bid in a video published on his Facebook page on Tuesday. ‘There cannot be personal happiness when your community and the country are unhappy’, Marutyan said in his announcement video, questioning the governance and the transparency of the Yerevan Municipality.
Armenia
Recriminations fly as Yerevan mayor replaced by city hall
For the first time since Armenia’s independence, the mayor of Yerevan has been removed by a vote of non-confidence by the city council. Hayk Marutyan, once a close ally of Pashinyan, served as mayor of the Armenian capital since 2018. With 44 for and 10 votes against, former Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Hrachya Sargsyan was elected to replace Marutyan as mayor. In his last speech as mayor, Hayk Marutyan harshly criticised Armenia’s post-revolutionary government, accusing officials of asking h
Armenia
Ruling party to oust ‘disloyal’ Yerevan mayor
The Yerevan City Council has initiated a process to oust Mayor Hayk Marutyan. Marutyan, an erstwhile ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, has since left the ruling Civil Contract party and had not endorsed Pashinyan in the summer snap parliamentary election. In a Facebook post on its official party page, Civil Contract, which holds a majority of seats in the Yerevan municipality, justified the planned ouster of the mayor by citing his exit from the party, non-adherence to the party’s munic
