In the Stepanavan community, today, November 11, is the inaugural meeting of the newly elected Council of Elders, with the issue of electing a community leader on the agenda. With the unanimous vote of the present 14 members of the newly elected Council of Elders, Armen Grigoryan, who heads the list of the "Business" party, was elected mayor. Members of the Strong Armenia faction did not attend the meeting. It should be noted that at the beginning of the session, the attendees respected Arsen Gevorgyan's memory with a minute of silence. It should be reminded that on October 25, 4 political forces took part in the local elections in Stepanavan: the Civil Defense, Strong Armenia, theBusiness Party and theRepublicParty. The distribution of mandates is as follows: Business – 9 mandates Civil Contract – 8 mandates Strong Armenia – 4 seats. The “Businessman” party is headed by Armen Grigoryan. After the election, Aren Mkrtchyan, the governor of Lori, wrote a note stating: “According to the understanding reached in advance, the Civil Contractfaction in Stepanavan will vote for Armen Grigoryan. Due to the electoral technical requirements, Mr. Grigoryan had to freeze his membership in the Civil Contract Party, which has already filed an appropriate application to de-icing. I would like to emphasize that we are not going to formally act as two different factions in the community council, but we will act as a unified “Civil Contract”. Apparently, the Civil Defense misled votersby coming up with both the name of the Civil Defense and the name of the Business Party.