The Armenian National Congress (HAK) could consider taking up its seats in Yerevan's municipal assembly two years after renouncing them in protest against alleged vote rigging, a senior representative of the opposition alliance said on Monday.
The HAK won 13 seats in the 65-member Council of Elders in municipal elections held in May 2009. It rejected their official results as fraudulent and refused to join the council at the time.
It emerged last week that the bloc technically still controls those seats because it never abandoned them in a manner defined by the law. The Central Election Commission (CEC) warned that four senior HAK figures elected to Armenia's new parliament cannot receive their mandates unless they formally end their membership in the Yerevan council. The oppositionists promptly submitted their letters of resignation to the municipal administration.
Armenian News
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