Gagik Tsarukyan, whose Prosperous Armenia Party came in a distant second in yesterday’s Yerevan Municipal Council election, today congratulated the winner, the Im Kayl (My Step) Alliance.

“While categorically refusing the dangerous approach that divides society into black and white, the Prosperous Armenia party accepts the results of the election and congratulates the Im Kayl Alliance,” Tsarukyan wrote in a Facebook post.

Tsarukyan, a wealthy member of the parliament, then thanked his staff for running a principled campaign and that the promises made to Yerevan residents would be realized.