Reflecting on the Mayoral and City Council elections in Yerevan, Armenia - European Platform for Democratic Elections

Reflecting on the Mayoral and City Council elections in Yerevan, Armenia

(September 18, 2023)

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The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) organized an online discussion on Monday, 18 September at 1pm CEST (3pm Yerevan time), to reflect on the Mayoral and City Council elections which were held on Sunday, 17 September.

14 candidates ran for the seat of Mayor of Yerevan which had been vacant since Hrachya Sargsyan stepped down in March 2023 after less than two years in office.

With more than a third of the Armenian population living in the capital, the Mayoral and City Council elections in Yerevan are of the highest national interest and shape developments for the whole country.

It was a heated and competitive election campaign and observers A future area of reform would be to put institutional mechanisms of supervision of online media in place.

There is also a need to work with political parties. Their behaviour and the culture of debate during these elections should be analysed thoroughly to have some reflection about this for society and for the development of the political environment in Armenia for the future.

Speakers

	Sona Ayvazyan, Executive Director at Transparency International Anticorruption Center (TIAC)
	Vardine Grigoryan, Democracy Monitoring and Reporting Coordinator at Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor (HCAV)
	Genya Petrosyan, co-founder and the director at Law Development and Protection Foundation
	Moderater: Mark Dovich, Reporter, CivilNetTV

Event details

Time: 1-2.30 PM CEST (3-4.30pm local time)
Date: Monday, 18 September
Format: Online (facebook)