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    RAFFI HOVHANNISIAN WON IN MANY CITIES - STATEMENT

    TERT.AM
    14:02 ~U 22.02.13

    The opposition Heritage party considers the ballots cast in their
    leader's favor the Armenian voters' the real choice in the recent
    presidential elections

    In a statement, expresses disagreement with the election outcomes
    and calls for efforts to unite to promote real changes.

    The full text of the statement is provided below:

    In a statement, it calls for efforts to unite to realize what it
    firmly thinks to be the people's true choice.

    "On February 18, 2013, Armenia held Presidential elections. The next
    day, the Central Election Commission announced the primary results,
    which do not reflect the voters' will. According to the CEC, Raffi
    Hovannisian received 37% of the votes, to Serzh Sargsyan's 58%. Even
    according to CEC numbers, Serzh Sargsyan lost in most of urban polling
    stations. His overall win seems to have been secured by some rural
    areas that registered more than 90% voter turnout, of which 90%
    of the votes were in favor of Serzh Sargsyan.

    While there are dozens of examples, here are two illustrative ones. In
    Abovyan, Serzh Sargsyan lost the vote in 21 precincts out of total
    25, but recieved 1101 votes from just one polling station (while his
    average for the other 24 polling stations is 231 votes) which seem
    to have compensated for the loss from the other polling stations. In
    Etchmiadzin, Serzh Sargsyan lost in 19 out of 22 polling stations,
    but received more than 96% of the votes in neighboring Aygek village -
    26 to 758 to his favor. It is inexplicable how a candidate registering
    similar results in 90% of polling stations, suddenly receives several
    times more in the remaining 10%.

    These and similar results were achieved in no other means but
    falsification of the voting lists and ballots in 10-20% of the polling
    stations. This can be proved by disclosing the lists with voters'
    signatures and ballots, something that could significantly impact the
    election results and which would be sufficient grounds to invalidate
    the election results. Appropriate legal steps are being taken to
    that end.

    While deeply regretting the mentioned 10-20% of polling stations where
    the Heritage representatives underwent pressures and sometimes failed
    to resist, we nonetheless honor and thank the vast majority of our
    Precinct Electoral Commission members in more than 1,900 precincts
    as well as the 800 proxies for the work they did. Many of them who
    came to Hovannisian's campaign headquarters through the election
    night or called to tell just one word, 'We won,' did their work. It
    is because of their work that despite all the fraud and threats,
    Raffi Hovannisian's victory was registered in many cities.

    We thank the Armenian voters who rejected the calls for boycott and
    overcame apathy, and displayed a true spirit of political activism
    by refusing the incumbent regime, and electing Raffi Hovannisian as
    the next President of Armenia. Raffi Hovannisian received more votes
    than any other oppositional candidate in the last fifteen years. This
    mandate puts the onus of unification onto the rest of the political
    opposition to help secure the people's choice.

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