United Press International UPI
Feb 24 2013
Armenia opposition protests election
YEREVAN, Armenia, Feb. 24 (UPI) — The leader of Armenia’s main
opposition party Sunday vowed to keep up with efforts to overturn the
country’s recent presidential election.
Raffi Hovhannisyan, the U.S.-born head of the Heritage Party, told a
major protest rally in Yerevan Sunday he would hit the road to rally
support for nullification of the vote that returned incumbent Serzh
Sargsyan to office with 59 percent of the vote.
“Towns by towns, villages by villages … we will return power to
people,” Hovhannisyan told the crow, which state television said
numbered in the thousands.
Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency said international observers
concluded the election was legitimate although there was no genuine
competition to Sargsyan.
From: A. Papazian
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