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SARGSIAN: ARMENIAN CONSTITUTION PREVENTED SEIZURE OF POWER
Anadolu Agency (AA), Turkey
February 17, 2013 Sunday
Armenian presidential candidates delivered their last speeches before
coming election.
YEREVAN
Reporting by Halit Gulsen
"Silence" began in Armenia a day before the country holds presidential
elections.
Armenian presidential candidates delivered their last campaign
speeches on Saturday and they, according to Armenian election laws,
can not deliver speeches or campaign as of Sunday.
As such, Sunday is described as the day of "silence" in Armenia.
Addressing the Armenian people on a TV channel, the current Armenian
President Serzh Sargsian stressed that the "Armenian Constitution
prevented the seizure of power."
Accordingly, the word 'revolution' in Armenia refers to not a change
in the government system but rather a constitutional change, Sargsian
noted.
A major contender for Sargsian, former Armenian Foreign Minister and
the leader of the Heritage Party, Raffi Hovhannisian said that the
people of Armenia would struggle in the elections for the country's
future.
In the past 20 years, the Armenian people lost faith in the elections,
Hovhannisian stated.
Paruyr Hayrikyan, a candidate for president and the leader of the
Union for National Self-Determination (UNSD) said that if opposition
candidates united, President Sargsian would be defeated and the second
leg of the elections would have to take place.
Anadolu Agency (AA), Turkey
February 17, 2013 Sunday
Armenian presidential candidates delivered their last speeches before
coming election.
YEREVAN
Reporting by Halit Gulsen
"Silence" began in Armenia a day before the country holds presidential
elections.
Armenian presidential candidates delivered their last campaign
speeches on Saturday and they, according to Armenian election laws,
can not deliver speeches or campaign as of Sunday.
As such, Sunday is described as the day of "silence" in Armenia.
Addressing the Armenian people on a TV channel, the current Armenian
President Serzh Sargsian stressed that the "Armenian Constitution
prevented the seizure of power."
Accordingly, the word 'revolution' in Armenia refers to not a change
in the government system but rather a constitutional change, Sargsian
noted.
A major contender for Sargsian, former Armenian Foreign Minister and
the leader of the Heritage Party, Raffi Hovhannisian said that the
people of Armenia would struggle in the elections for the country's
future.
In the past 20 years, the Armenian people lost faith in the elections,
Hovhannisian stated.
Paruyr Hayrikyan, a candidate for president and the leader of the
Union for National Self-Determination (UNSD) said that if opposition
candidates united, President Sargsian would be defeated and the second
leg of the elections would have to take place.