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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED, OPPOSITION CRIES FOUL
http://www.financialmirror.com/news-details.php?nid=28887
19 February, 2013
Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan has won a new five-year term,
the Central Electoral Commission said on Tuesday.
Police said after polls closed on Monday that they had received 70
reports of voting violations, including bribery at polling stations,
and that they had opened two criminal investigations.
The president, 58, has vowed to sustain economic recovery in his
landlocked South Caucasus country and said before the vote he would
ensure stability and security after years of war and upheaval though
he outlined no big policy changes.
Preliminary results released by the Central Electoral Commission
showed Sarksyan had won 58.6 percent of the votes cast. His closest
rival, U.S.-born Raffi Hovannisian, who served previously as foreign
minister, was on nearly 37 percent of votes.
The preliminary results followed an exit poll immediately after
voting ended in the former Soviet republic which had put Sarksyan on
58 percent of the votes.
The opposition Heritage Party said that some ballots cast for
opposition parties had been thrown out, although there was no
indication whether it would challenge the vote, which passed without
any major violence.
http://www.financialmirror.com/news-details.php?nid=28887
19 February, 2013
Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan has won a new five-year term,
the Central Electoral Commission said on Tuesday.
Police said after polls closed on Monday that they had received 70
reports of voting violations, including bribery at polling stations,
and that they had opened two criminal investigations.
The president, 58, has vowed to sustain economic recovery in his
landlocked South Caucasus country and said before the vote he would
ensure stability and security after years of war and upheaval though
he outlined no big policy changes.
Preliminary results released by the Central Electoral Commission
showed Sarksyan had won 58.6 percent of the votes cast. His closest
rival, U.S.-born Raffi Hovannisian, who served previously as foreign
minister, was on nearly 37 percent of votes.
The preliminary results followed an exit poll immediately after
voting ended in the former Soviet republic which had put Sarksyan on
58 percent of the votes.
The opposition Heritage Party said that some ballots cast for
opposition parties had been thrown out, although there was no
indication whether it would challenge the vote, which passed without
any major violence.