Armenian party leader attacked during election re-run
A party leader was brutally beaten during Armenia’s parliamentary
election re-run held on Sunday.
Petros Makeyan, chairman of the Democratic Homeland party who represents Aykakan Jamanak newspaper’s editor, Nikol Pashinyan, his son as well as a member of Pashinyan’s election headquarters, were assaulted by about 20 people in a polling station in the capital Yerevan, Armenia Today news agency reported. Though police officers were present, they failed to take action against the assailants. The attack resulted in three members of the election headquarters being hospitalized.
One parliamentary seat was contested in Armenia’s repeat polls. Along with Pashinyan, who remains in jail, hopefuls included Ara Simonyan, National Unity party’s representative and a relative of the Yerevan mayor, and David Akopyan, the leader of the Marxist party. Akopyan, who enjoys the government’s backing, was vitorious.*
Petros Makeyan, chairman of the Democratic Homeland party who represents Aykakan Jamanak newspaper’s editor, Nikol Pashinyan, his son as well as a member of Pashinyan’s election headquarters, were assaulted by about 20 people in a polling station in the capital Yerevan, Armenia Today news agency reported. Though police officers were present, they failed to take action against the assailants. The attack resulted in three members of the election headquarters being hospitalized.
One parliamentary seat was contested in Armenia’s repeat polls. Along with Pashinyan, who remains in jail, hopefuls included Ara Simonyan, National Unity party’s representative and a relative of the Yerevan mayor, and David Akopyan, the leader of the Marxist party. Akopyan, who enjoys the government’s backing, was vitorious.*
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