DECISION 2013: ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER RALLIES SUPPORT FOR BAREVOLUTION CAMPAIGN
VOTE 2013 | 28.02.13 | 19:20
After touring the regions for several days as part of his nationwide
campaign to rally support against the outcome of last week’s
presidential election, official runner-up, Raffi Hovannisian, has
again gathered thousands of his supporters in Yerevan to declare
himself “de jure” elected president of Armenia.
At the rally in the Armenian capital’s Liberty Square on Thursday,
however, Hovannisian dropped more hints about a possible protracted
nature of his revolution of greetings, or Barevolution, calling for
resignations of officials in villages, towns, provinces, universities,
who have opposed the people’s will, and finally at 26 Baghramyan
Street, the official seat of the incumbent president, Serzh Sargsyan,
who was certified as the winner of the February 18 election earlier
this week.
The Central Election Commission on Monday announced the final results
of the ballot, suggesting that Hovannisian polled close to 37 percent
of the vote, as opposed to nearly 59 percent given for the current
head of state.
“This struggle may take a day, a week, a month or a year. Are you
ready for it?” Hovannisian asked an enthusiastic crowd.
The 53-year-old U.S.-born politician, who publically announced his
decision not to appear as leader of the Heritage party anymore during
the current movement in view of its cross-party nature, also practiced
a little bit of “crowd democracy” by asking people to approve or
decline some key proposals by a show of hands.
Among the issues were whether or not to seek the annulment of the
presidential ballot at the Constitutional Court and whether to start
forming a shadow government as proposed by one of the allies of
the movement.
Hovannisian said they will consider the results of the people’s vote
in taking the final decisions that he said along with other important
statements will be made public at another authorized rally on March 2.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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