ARMENIAN PRESIDENT WINS ELECTIONS
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 19 2013
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has won the elections. The Central
Electoral Commission checked vote results of 1988 polling stations
and says that Sargsyan got 58.64% (861,160) votes, followed by Raffi
Ovannisyan, leader of the Heritage Party and ex-Foreign Minister of
Armenia, with 36.75% (539,672) votes.
Former Prime Minister Grant Bagratyan got 2.15% (31,643) of votes,
leader of the Union for National Self-Determination Paruyr Ayrikyan
got 1.23% (18,093), head of Radio Hay Andrias Gukasyan got 0.57%
(8,328), epos researcher Vardan Sedrakyan go 0.42% (6,203) and former
Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Arman Melikyan 0.24% (3,516).
The CEC says that 60.05% of the population (1,518,407) people voted.
Ovannisyan plans protests at the Freedom Square at Yerevan center at
5.00 pm. Protests have already started at the CEC. Activists say that
they will continue protests until their demands are fulfilled.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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