Armenian prime minister obtains 57% in presidential exit polls
21:03 | 19/ 02/ 2008
YEREVAN, February 19 (RIA Novosti) – Armenian Prime Minister Serzh
Sarkisyan has garnered 57.01% in presidential exit polls.
He is followed by Armenia’s first president Levon-Ter-Petrosyan with
17.04% and ex-parliamentary speaker Artur Bagdasaryan with 14.6%.
Vaan Ovannisyan, a deputy parliamentary speaker and a member of the
Dashnaktsutyun party’s bureau, came fourth with 5.98%. The remaining
five candidates received 1.6% of the vote.
The nationwide exit polls were conducted by Populus, a leading British
pollster, for Armenian television at 126 polling stations.
Populus has been pollster to a wide number of big clients, including
the BBC, The Times, and Britain’s leading parties. It gave an error
margin of 0.25% during the latest elections in the U.K.
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