The city council of France's Lyon made a decision to appoint Georges Kepenekian new mayor of France's Lyon. Kepenekian will assume his post this evening.
As Sputnik Armenia reports, referring to Mlyon magazine, the former Mayor Gerard Collomb, who was appointed Interior Minister of France, has proposed Georges Kepenekian’s candidacy.
Kepenikian, the son of Armenian emigrants, is a surgeon-urologist.