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NO RECTOR WAS ELECTED

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During 8.5 hours the voters did not manage to elect a rector for the Yerevan State University. In the third phase too none of the candidates collected the necessary amount of votes: Aram Simonyan had 20 votes for, and Gagik Ghazinyan – 36, which is only one vote shy of the necessary amount. 11 voters voted against everyone, and three ballots were announced invalid.

The elections will take place in 50 days – on May 15.

RECTOR OF THE YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY WILL BE ELECTED IN THE THIRD PHASE

Since midday till now the session hall of the central building of the Yerevan State University is full of people. The reason is the election of the rector of the University.

There were four candidates: vice rector of the University Aram Simonyan, Dean of the faculty of Mathematics Gegham Gevorgyan, Dean of the law faculty Gagik Ghazinyan and Dean of the faculty of physics Samvel Haroutyunyan. 50% of the voters were representatives of the Government and the Ministry of Education and Sciences, and the other half were representatives of the University professors and students. Of the 72 electors two were absent: NA deputy Speaker Tigran Torosyan who is participating in the CE works and Dean of the oriental studies faculty Gourgen Meliqyan who is in hospital.

The session was closed. The journalists followed the course of events from the corridor trying to guess what is going on on the other side of the doors. During the session the candidates made speech about their plans and answered the questions of those present.

«It is meaningless to speak about any support before the electoral process. The atmosphere was fine today», Aram Simonyan said. The voting took place after the break. As a result Aram Simonyan had 21 votes for, Gegham Gevorgyan – 16, Gagik Ghazinyan – 28, and Samvel Haroutyunyan – four. One of the electors voted against all the candidates. The first two candidates reached the second phase. But now that the second phase has finished the rector has not been elected yet. Gagik Ghazinyan has 32 votes, and Aram Simonyan – 23. 7 votes were invalid, and 8 people voted against everyone.

By the way, one of the members of the University Governing Council mentioned, «Everything is fabricated. They are simply playing a game». One of the student added, «There has been no physical pressure upon the students, but there has been psychological pressure».