The residents of Gyumri who had accidentally met the family of the mayor, his nephews in particular, on one of the beaches of Ureki, neighboring Georgia, informed www.aravot.am about this. According to our sources, the mayor of Gyumri rests in a luxurious resort on the border of Georgia and Abkhazia, Anaklia, which has been built recently thanks to the efforts of President Saakashvili and where international youth camps are organized.
According to the same sources, Vardan Ghukasyan’s closest friend Hovhannes Grkikyan, one of the high-ranking officials at Gyumri Town Hall, is also in Georgia, went to Georgia in his car and lodged in one of the most expensive hotels in Kobuleti, Georgia Pallace Hotel. Let us note that this hotel on the Black Sea coast is the first five-star hotel in Georgia.
Let us remind that the mayor left Gyumri, along with his supporters, on the eve of the local elections protesting against President Serzh Sargsyan by that, because the latter hadn’t
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allowed him to announce his candidacy, he hadn’t agreed also to the option “to be announced, to compete with the president’s favorite candidate Samvel Balasanyan and to manly hand over the office in case of the latter’s victory.”
Coming to polling stations, a huge part of the residents of Gyumri added Vardan Ghukasyan’s name to the list of 4 candidates for mayor and voted for him.
Nune AREVSHATYAN
