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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SARKISIAN'S REELECTION CONFIRMED; RUNNER-UP CONTINUES TO CONTEST RESULTS
Vancouver Sun, BC, Canada
Feb 25 2013
By The Associated Press February 25, 2013
YEREVAN, Armenia - Final elections results in Armenia have given
a second term to President Serge Sarkisian, although the runner-up
continues to allege the vote was flawed.
Tigran Mukuchian, chairman of the country's Central Election
Commission, said Monday that Sarkisian won the election a week ago
with nearly 59 per cent of the vote, enough to avoid a run-off. The
nearest of his six rivals, American-born Raffi Hovanessian, got just
under 37 per cent.
Hovanessian, Armenia's first foreign minister after the 1991 collapse
of the Soviet Union, has filed an appeal demanding the election
commission revoke Sarkisian's candidacy on the grounds that he did
not declare all of his campaign finances.
Hovanessian claims he was the election's real winner, and has held
rallies throughout the country alleging ballot-stuffing and voter
coercion since the election.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Armenian+president+Sarkisians+reelection+confirmed +runnerup/8011630/story.html
Vancouver Sun, BC, Canada
Feb 25 2013
By The Associated Press February 25, 2013
YEREVAN, Armenia - Final elections results in Armenia have given
a second term to President Serge Sarkisian, although the runner-up
continues to allege the vote was flawed.
Tigran Mukuchian, chairman of the country's Central Election
Commission, said Monday that Sarkisian won the election a week ago
with nearly 59 per cent of the vote, enough to avoid a run-off. The
nearest of his six rivals, American-born Raffi Hovanessian, got just
under 37 per cent.
Hovanessian, Armenia's first foreign minister after the 1991 collapse
of the Soviet Union, has filed an appeal demanding the election
commission revoke Sarkisian's candidacy on the grounds that he did
not declare all of his campaign finances.
Hovanessian claims he was the election's real winner, and has held
rallies throughout the country alleging ballot-stuffing and voter
coercion since the election.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Armenian+president+Sarkisians+reelection+confirmed +runnerup/8011630/story.html