Sarkisyan wins Armenian presidential polls – final results

18:28 | 24/ 02/ 2008

YEREVAN, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – Armenian Prime Minister Serzh
Sarkisyan has won February 19 presidential elections, the country’s
central election commission announced on Sunday, giving final election
results.

"Sarkisyan gained 862,369 votes or 52.82%," Garegin Azaryan, the head
of the Armenian central election commission, said.

His nearest rivals, Armenia’s first president Levon-Ter-Petrosyan and
ex-parliamentary speaker Artur Bagdasaryan received 21.5% (351,222
votes) and 17.7% (272,427 votes), respectively. Six other candidates
gained less than 10% of the votes, the central election commission
said.

A total of 1.67 million people took part in the country’s elections,
with voter turnout of almost 70%.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS