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Hayk Marutyan, Yerevan’s former mayor. Image via Yerevan City Council.

Armenia

Ruling party removes former Yerevan mayor from city council

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

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

Civil Contract mayoral candidate Tigran Avinyan and National Progress candidate Hayk Marutyan.

2023 Elections in Armenia

Ruling party falls short of majority in Yerevan elections

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

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

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

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

Former Yerevan mayor Hayk Marutyan. Image via Facebook.

Armenia

Ousted Yerevan mayor to challenge ruling party in City Council vote

by Ani Avetisyan

•3 min read

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.

Hayk Marutyan during his last city hall session as mayor. Still from video.

Armenia

Recriminations fly as Yerevan mayor replaced by city hall

by Ani Avetisyan

•3 min read

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

Hayk Marutyan at his 2018 inauguration as Yerevan mayor. Official photo.

Armenia

Ruling party to oust ‘disloyal’ Yerevan mayor

by Ani Avetisyan

•3 min read

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

Armenia

Yerevan municipality takes over waste-collection

by Hovhannes Ishkhanyan

•4 min read

Yerevan’s authorities have taken over waste-collection from Lebanon-based contractor Sanitek after the summer’s ‘rubbish crisis’. In mid-September, Yerevan residents found the ubiquitous black rubbish bins owned by the city’s waste removal contractor, Sanitek, tipped over. Standing next to them were new green containers owned by the city municipality. The appearance of the new containers in mid-September was the latest manifestation of the ongoing row between Yerevan Municipality and San