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    ARMENIA PRESIDENT SECURES RE-ELECTION

    EuroNews
    Feb 18 2013
    Europe

    Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan appears headed for a second five-year
    term. Exit polls suggest he has gained 58 per cent of votes cast.

    The last presidential election, in 2008, was marred by clashes in which
    10 people were killed, but there were no immediate reports of violence.

    His closest rival Raffi Hovannisian has 32 per cent and the lack of
    serious competition has led many to question the democratic credentials
    of the poll.

    Questions also linger over security in a nation locked in a dispute
    with neighbouring Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic
    Armenian-majority enclave inside Azerbaijan over which Armenians and
    Azeris fought a war in the 1990s.

    The contest was also overshadowed by an attempt to kill a minor
    candidate. Paruyr Hayrikyan, 63, an outsider in the election. He was
    shot in the shoulder last month.

    But Sarksyan will also hope the election secures the approval of
    international observers and ensure some stability after years of war
    and upheaval.

    Final results are expected by Tuesday.

    http://www.euronews.com/2013/02/18/armenia-president-secures-re-election/

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