5,000 PROTESTERS DISPUTE ARMENIA ELECTION RESULT
Thegardenisland.com, Hawaii
Feb 20 2013
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – About 5,000 supporters of a presidential
candidate in Armenia, who has lost to the incumbent, have protested
the election results.
President Serge Sarkisian easily won a second five-year term in
Monday’s vote, getting nearly 59 percent of the vote. The closest of
his six rivals, American-born Raffi Hovanessian, polled 37 percent.
Hovanessian, Armenia’s first foreign minister after the 1991 collapse
of the Soviet Union, has called the election unfair and rigged,
and declared himself the genuine winner.
On Wednesday, about 5,000 of his supporters gathered in the capital
to back Hovanessian’s demands. Hovanessian challenged the incumbent
to come to the square in Yerevan, and some of his followers pledged
to remain there through the night.
International monitors said the election “lacked competition,” but
noted improvements compared to the previous poll.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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