ARMENIA’S LEADER TO “INVESTIGATE” CAUSES OF LETDOWNS IN ELECTION – NEWSPAPER
NEWS.AM
February 20, 2013 | 07:14
YEREVAN. – The results of Monday’s presidential voting in Armenia
were a surprise for President Serzh Sargsyan-who, nonetheless, is
reelected into office-because he was reported on something completely
different during the pre-election phase, Hraparak daily reports.
“Some compare the created situation with [the] 1996 [election],
when unexpected results were registered, in which [then-President,
and leader of today’s opposition bloc, Armenian National Congress]
Levon Ter-Petrosyan saw his team’s share of the guilt; to note, the
[National Assembly] NA Speaker [at the time] likewise was the chief
of his [election campaign] headquarters.
According to some information, Serzh Sargsyan, unlike Ter-Petrosyan,
tends to ‘investigate’ to understand as to who is to blame,” Hraparak
writes.
From: A. Papazian
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