YEREVAN, JUNE 3, NOYAN TAPAN. If the Armenian National Congress (ANC) does not accept the preliminary results of the May 31 Yerevan Council of Elders elections and renounces its mandates, the Council of Elders will work with an incomplete staff in the coming 4 years. As David Haroutiunian, a RPA member, the Chairman of the RA NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Issues, explained in response to journalists' questions, if all candidates of elders included in ANC's list individually renounce their mandates, their mandates will be vacant until the end of the powers of this council of elders. It should be mentioned that according to the preliminary results of elections, according to unofficial calculations, the Republican Party of Armenia will have 35 mandates, Bargavach Hayastan 17 mandates, ANC 13 mandates. If ANC renounces its mandates, the first Yerevan Council of Elders will consist of 52 members instead of the planned 65.

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