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PRIME MINISTER WINS OVERWHELMING SUPPORT IN ARMENIAN POLL
Agence France Presse -- English
November 8, 2007 Thursday 1:52 AM GMT
Armenia's Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian enjoys an overwhelming lead
in popular support as indicated by a poll held ahead of presidential
elections in February, his party said in a statement.
"The poll conducted between Octber 23 and November 1 gives Sarkisian
support of 38 percent of the surveyed electorate," the statement said,
adding that Sarkisian's rival Levon Ter-Petrosian, a former president,
garnered only six percent.
The poll, carried out by British polling company ComRes Ltd, questioned
2,000 Armenians.
Sarkisian, Kocharian's chosen successor for president, is viewed
as the uncontested frontrunner in the presidential poll, though
Ter-Petrosian, who last month announced he would also run for the
top job, is expected to mount a serious competition.
Ter-Petrosian led Armenia from its independence from the Soviet Union
in 1991 until 1998, when he was forced to resign by key members of
his cabinet, including then prime minister Kocharian, for advocating
a peace plan for Karabakh that was seen as giving too much to rival
Azerbaijan.
Backed by Armenia, the ethnic Armenian enclave broke away from
Azerbaijan in a war in the early 1990s that left thousands dead and
forced more than a million people on both sides to flee their homes.
Agence France Presse -- English
November 8, 2007 Thursday 1:52 AM GMT
Armenia's Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian enjoys an overwhelming lead
in popular support as indicated by a poll held ahead of presidential
elections in February, his party said in a statement.
"The poll conducted between Octber 23 and November 1 gives Sarkisian
support of 38 percent of the surveyed electorate," the statement said,
adding that Sarkisian's rival Levon Ter-Petrosian, a former president,
garnered only six percent.
The poll, carried out by British polling company ComRes Ltd, questioned
2,000 Armenians.
Sarkisian, Kocharian's chosen successor for president, is viewed
as the uncontested frontrunner in the presidential poll, though
Ter-Petrosian, who last month announced he would also run for the
top job, is expected to mount a serious competition.
Ter-Petrosian led Armenia from its independence from the Soviet Union
in 1991 until 1998, when he was forced to resign by key members of
his cabinet, including then prime minister Kocharian, for advocating
a peace plan for Karabakh that was seen as giving too much to rival
Azerbaijan.
Backed by Armenia, the ethnic Armenian enclave broke away from
Azerbaijan in a war in the early 1990s that left thousands dead and
forced more than a million people on both sides to flee their homes.