ARMENIA RULING PARTY WINS ELECTION: PARTIAL RESULTS

Business Recorder

May 7 2012

YEREVAN: Armenia’s governing party on Monday was set to win
parliamentary elections that were the biggest test of the country’s
fragile democracy since 2008 polls ended in fatal clashes, partial
results showed.

President Serzh Sarkisian’s governing Republican party led with
44.69 percent of the vote after three-quarters of the 1,982 polling
stations had counted ballots from Sunday’s contest, the Central
Election Commission said.

Its outgoing coalition partner turned poll rival, the Prosperous
Armenia party, was running second on 30.61 per cent.

Trailing far behind, the opposition Armenian National Congress bloc
was third on 6.72 percent, according to the commission results,
posted on its website.