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SERZH SARGSYAN BECOMES ARMENIAN PRESIDENT OFFICIALLY
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 25 2013
Head of the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia has published
final results of the presidential polls. Serzh Sargsyan got 861,373
votes (58.64%), followed by Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the Heritage
Party with 36.74%, News Armenia reports.
Grant Bagratyan, former PM, currently leader of the Freedom Party
and an MP, Paruyr Ayrikyan, leader of the Union for National
Self-Determination, Arman Melikyan, former Foreign Minister of
Nagorno-Karabakh, political analyst Andrias Gukasyan and epos
researcher Vardan Sedrakyan got less than 5% of votes.
60.18% of the population, or 1.521 million people, voted.
7,000 observers from 26 local and 12 international organizations,
including OSCE ODIHR, OSCE PA, PACE, CIS PA and others, monitored
the polls. They say that the elections meet international standards,
although violations were registered.
Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of Prosperous Armenia, supports Ovannisyan's
attempts to appeal the election results.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/37431.html
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 25 2013
Head of the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia has published
final results of the presidential polls. Serzh Sargsyan got 861,373
votes (58.64%), followed by Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the Heritage
Party with 36.74%, News Armenia reports.
Grant Bagratyan, former PM, currently leader of the Freedom Party
and an MP, Paruyr Ayrikyan, leader of the Union for National
Self-Determination, Arman Melikyan, former Foreign Minister of
Nagorno-Karabakh, political analyst Andrias Gukasyan and epos
researcher Vardan Sedrakyan got less than 5% of votes.
60.18% of the population, or 1.521 million people, voted.
7,000 observers from 26 local and 12 international organizations,
including OSCE ODIHR, OSCE PA, PACE, CIS PA and others, monitored
the polls. They say that the elections meet international standards,
although violations were registered.
Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of Prosperous Armenia, supports Ovannisyan's
attempts to appeal the election results.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/37431.html