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    PROSHIAN VOTE BEING CONTESTED

    http://asbarez.com/111525/proshian-vote-being-contested/
    Monday, July 15th, 2013

    Entrance to Proshian Village

    PROSHIAN, Armenia-The results of a special mayoral elections held in
    this village in the Kotayk Region Sunday are being contested, with
    Vova Sahakian a candidate from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
    appealing to the Central Electoral Commission to demand a recount of
    the vote, which saw him in a close second to the Republican Party of
    Armenia's Artur Mouradyan.

    Sahakian's campaign manager Taron Tonoyan told pastinfo.am of the
    decision to appeal the results, citing a tense environment of fraud
    and bribery on election day.

    Sahakian, himself, did not cite specific instances of the alleged
    fraud, saying that once the official results are announced "the
    necessary steps will be taken."

    The village of Proshian was holding special election Sunday to fill
    the mayoral vacancy left by the April 2 murder of its previous mayor,
    Hratch Mouradian, who was gunned down in front of the municipal
    headquarters in the village center.

    After the murder, which according to official statements is still
    under investigation, locals alleged that Mourdian, a Karabakh War
    veteran and an ARF member, was killed for political motives stemming
    from disagreements with Republican Party factions in the village.

    Mouradian's family endorsed Sahakian in the election. The latter
    garnered 1,241 votes to his opponent's 1,371 votes, according to
    preliminary results.

    Weeks after the murder, the Karabakh War Memorial in the city was
    desecrated on the day of Mouradian's 40th memorial. On the same
    day, pictures of Mouradian were defaced with derogatory statements
    spray-painted on them.

    One news outlet, 7or.am, in covering Sunday's election observed that
    the village changed its leadership through murder.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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