A candidate of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) won a mayoral election in the central Armenian town of Talin on Sunday amid allegations of foul play made by his two main challengers.
Official election results showed the HHK's Sarkis Aramian becoming Talin's new mayor with 40 percent of the vote. Vazgen Khachatrian, a candidate of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), got 30 percent and finished second. He was followed by Vorosh Khachatrian (28 percent), a renegade HHK hopeful.
The vote was marked by an unusually heavy police presence in the streets of Talin. Police patrols cars were especially visible near the campaign headquarters of Vorosh Khachatrian. Officials there accused the police of bullying their activists by impounding their cars and taking them to the local police station.
Armenian News
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