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ARMENIA OPPOSITION REFUSES TO RECOGNISE PRESIDENT'S WIN
Ahram Online, Egypt
Feb 19 2013
The leading challenger to Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian refused
Tuesday to recognise the incumbent leader's victory in presidential
elections AFP , Tuesday 19 Feb 2013
Former Armenia foreign minister Raffi Hovannisian, who came second
in Monday's presidential poll rejected the outcome of the elections
saying the "vote was not fair and the (official) results do not
reflect people's will."
Speaking to hundreds of supporters at a rally in Yerevan's central
Liberty square, Hovannisian insisted that he was the true winner.
"We will not let the authorities to steal the people's victory,"
he said, adding that he might seek the overturning of the official
results in the Constitutional Court.
Sarkisian won Monday's poll with 58.64 percent of the votes against
Hovannisian's 36.75 percent of votes, the central election commission
said after counting results from all the precincts.
Observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly said the election was
an improvement on past polls but lacked real competition after two
leading candidates pulled out late last year.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/65155/World/International/Armenia-opposition-refuses-to-recognise-presidents.aspx
Ahram Online, Egypt
Feb 19 2013
The leading challenger to Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian refused
Tuesday to recognise the incumbent leader's victory in presidential
elections AFP , Tuesday 19 Feb 2013
Former Armenia foreign minister Raffi Hovannisian, who came second
in Monday's presidential poll rejected the outcome of the elections
saying the "vote was not fair and the (official) results do not
reflect people's will."
Speaking to hundreds of supporters at a rally in Yerevan's central
Liberty square, Hovannisian insisted that he was the true winner.
"We will not let the authorities to steal the people's victory,"
he said, adding that he might seek the overturning of the official
results in the Constitutional Court.
Sarkisian won Monday's poll with 58.64 percent of the votes against
Hovannisian's 36.75 percent of votes, the central election commission
said after counting results from all the precincts.
Observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly said the election was
an improvement on past polls but lacked real competition after two
leading candidates pulled out late last year.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/65155/World/International/Armenia-opposition-refuses-to-recognise-presidents.aspx