Many Armenian political analysts believe that the forthcoming Yerevan municipal elections will not have a fundamental influence on the layout of political and economic powers in the country, at least in the initial stage, as it is not the election that will create a new palette of domestic politics, but the already shaped domestic policy palette itself will ‘create’ the election results.

There is little doubt that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) will concentrate all the levers of Yerevan government in its hands. That concerns both the mayor’s chair and those of heads of Yerevan communities.