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ITAR-TASS, Russia
March 23, 2013 Saturday 06:30 PM GMT+4
Opposition candidate may recognise Sargsyan's victory on some conditions
YEREVAN March 23
- Former presidential candidate and opposition politician Raffi
Ovanesyan is ready to recognise President Serzh Sargsyan's victory in
the election but on certain conditions.
He said so in a letter to the president. Ovanesyan, who has been on a
hunger strike since March 10, made the announcement at a rally on
Friday evening, March 22.
A former citizen of the United States, Ovanesyan, who was Armenian
interior minister in 1991-1992, demands that the National Assembly be
dissolved this year and new parliamentary elections be called. Before
that, he believes it would be necessary to revise the Electoral Code
so that MPs were elected not by a mixed system as now but only by the
proportional one.
During the transitional period, Ovanesyan, who is the leader of the
Heritage party, says his associates should get key positions in the
government, including the posts of foreign minister, education and
science minister, prosecutor general, director of the National
Security Service, chairman of the Committee on State Revenues, head of
the Audit Chamber, heads of the Council of Justice and of the
Antitrust Commission.
He also called for dismissing the governors of at least five of ten
regions and replacing them his own people. Ovanesyan demands that
mayors of cities and rural chairmen who allowed violations during the
presidential election be also dismissed. He insists that Armenian
citizens living abroad should be allowed to vote, which they can't do
now.
Presidential spokesperson Armen Arzumanyan said, "All letters
addressed to the head of state are duly reviewed and answered."
Ovanesyan, 54, received 36.74 percent of votes in the presidential
election on February 18 and came in second, but says he won the
election, not Sargsyan who, in his opinion, should "give up power."
Having considered the opposition's lawsuits, the Constitutional Court
on Thursday, March 21, upheld the Central Election Commission's
decision that gave the victory to Serzh Sargsyan.
From: Baghdasarian
March 23, 2013 Saturday 06:30 PM GMT+4
Opposition candidate may recognise Sargsyan's victory on some conditions
YEREVAN March 23
- Former presidential candidate and opposition politician Raffi
Ovanesyan is ready to recognise President Serzh Sargsyan's victory in
the election but on certain conditions.
He said so in a letter to the president. Ovanesyan, who has been on a
hunger strike since March 10, made the announcement at a rally on
Friday evening, March 22.
A former citizen of the United States, Ovanesyan, who was Armenian
interior minister in 1991-1992, demands that the National Assembly be
dissolved this year and new parliamentary elections be called. Before
that, he believes it would be necessary to revise the Electoral Code
so that MPs were elected not by a mixed system as now but only by the
proportional one.
During the transitional period, Ovanesyan, who is the leader of the
Heritage party, says his associates should get key positions in the
government, including the posts of foreign minister, education and
science minister, prosecutor general, director of the National
Security Service, chairman of the Committee on State Revenues, head of
the Audit Chamber, heads of the Council of Justice and of the
Antitrust Commission.
He also called for dismissing the governors of at least five of ten
regions and replacing them his own people. Ovanesyan demands that
mayors of cities and rural chairmen who allowed violations during the
presidential election be also dismissed. He insists that Armenian
citizens living abroad should be allowed to vote, which they can't do
now.
Presidential spokesperson Armen Arzumanyan said, "All letters
addressed to the head of state are duly reviewed and answered."
Ovanesyan, 54, received 36.74 percent of votes in the presidential
election on February 18 and came in second, but says he won the
election, not Sargsyan who, in his opinion, should "give up power."
Having considered the opposition's lawsuits, the Constitutional Court
on Thursday, March 21, upheld the Central Election Commission's
decision that gave the victory to Serzh Sargsyan.
From: Baghdasarian