The leader of a political group that finished third in the weekend municipal election in Gyumri remained on Tuesday reluctant to clarify whether he will enable another opposition candidate to become the new mayor of Armenia’s second largest city.
Law-enforcement officers ill-treated a female opposition candidate and two other elderly women in Gyumri who were arrested during the weekend municipal election held there, lawyers representing them claimed on Tuesday.
A parliament deputy from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party announced his resignation on Tuesday two days after appearing drunk in public and insulting a journalist.
A visibly drunk member of Armenia’s parliament representing the ruling Civil Contract party swore at a reporter late on Sunday as he roamed streets in downtown Gyumri during a tense local election held there.
German President Franck-Walter Steinmeier called on Azerbaijan to sign a peace deal with Armenia finalized earlier this month during an official visit to Yerevan on Monday.
Azerbaijani forces opened fire at a border village in Armenia’s Syunik province overnight, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Monday as it denied renewed Azerbaijani allegations of Armenian truce violations along the border between the two countries.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party risked losing control of Gyumri despite winning most votes in a municipal election held in Armenia’s second largest city on Sunday.
Thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh rallied in Yerevan on Saturday to demand that Armenia’s government stop discriminating against them, champion their right to safely return to their homeland on the international stage and keep up housing allowances paid to many of them.
Law-enforcement authorities have freed all eight people arrested in Thursday’s police raids on the offices of two opposition blocs challenging Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party in the upcoming municipal election in Gyumri.
The ruling Civil Contract party’s candidate in the upcoming mayoral election in Gyumri faced an uproar from Armenian opposition figures and exiled Nagorno-Karabakh activists on Friday after saying that Karabakh was a “bad place” before being recaptured by Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan will not sign a peace deal with Armenia before clinching further concessions from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, representatives of the leading Armenian opposition groups insisted on Friday.
Residents of two border villages in Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province said on Thursday that Azerbaijani troops deployed nearby opened cross-border fire for the seventh consecutive night.
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