Gyumri Mayor Vardan Gukasyan was summoned to the residence of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan where he was informed that the ruling Republican Party would not promote him for the mayor’s position anymore and would support Samvel Balasanyan of Prosperous Armenia instead, Aysor reports.
Gukasyan quit the party. Ruben Tadevosyan, head of the organization commission of the Republican Party, confirmed the information.
Moreover, a passenger of a Gyumri-Moscow flight said that the police and the National Security Service took the mayor’s son Spartak from the plane. About 30 people arrived to see him off, but he was unable to depart.
The police of Armenia commented that no prohibition was made against Spartak Gukasyan. The problem was that his documents had problems.
