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    Emil Lazarian
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Armenian parliament starts voting for new president

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Armenia – March 2 2022


The Armenian National Assembly stated voting for the election of a new president of the country on Wednesday afternoon.

The voting, which began at 3pm, will run until 4pm.

Vahagn Khachaturyan is the sole presidential candidate nominated by the ruling Civil Contract faction.

The opposition Hayastan (Armenia) and With Honor factions did not field any presidential candidates, and boycotted today’s parliamentary debates on Khachaturyan’s candidacy.

Khachaturyan needs 81 votes to be elected president in the first round. but the Civil Contract faction holds 71 seats in the parliament. In the second round, however, 65 votes in favor are enough to elect a new president.

Armen Sarkissian stepped down as Armenian president on January 23.

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