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    NO RECTOR WAS ELECTED

    08:54 pm 22 March, 2006

    During 8.5 hours the voters did not manage to elect a rector for the
    Yerevan State University. In the third phase too none of the
    candidates collected the necessary amount of votes: Aram Simonyan had
    20 votes for, and Gagik Ghazinyan - 36, which is only one vote shy of
    the necessary amount. 11 voters voted against everyone, and three
    ballots were announced invalid.

    The elections will take place in 50 days - on May 15.

    RECTOR OF THE YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY WILL BE ELECTED IN THE THIRD
    PHASE

    Since midday till now the session hall of the central building of the
    Yerevan State University is full of people. The reason is the election
    of the rector of the University.

    There were four candidates: vice rector of the University Aram
    Simonyan, Dean of the faculty of Mathematics Gegham Gevorgyan, Dean of
    the law faculty Gagik Ghazinyan and Dean of the faculty of physics
    Samvel Haroutyunyan. 50% of the voters were representatives of the
    Government and the Ministry of Education and Sciences, and the other
    half were representatives of the University professors and
    students. Of the 72 electors two were absent: NA deputy Speaker Tigran
    Torosyan who is participating in the CE works and Dean of the oriental
    studies faculty Gourgen Meliqyan who is in hospital.

    The session was closed. The journalists followed the course of events
    from the corridor trying to guess what is going on on the other side
    of the doors. During the session the candidates made speech about
    their plans and answered the questions of those present.

    «It is meaningless to speak about any support before the electoral
    process. The atmosphere was fine today», Aram Simonyan said. The
    voting took place after the break. As a result Aram Simonyan had 21
    votes for, Gegham Gevorgyan - 16, Gagik Ghazinyan - 28, and Samvel
    Haroutyunyan - four. One of the electors voted against all the
    candidates. The first two candidates reached the second phase. But now
    that the second phase has finished the rector has not been elected
    yet. Gagik Ghazinyan has 32 votes, and Aram Simonyan - 23. 7 votes
    were invalid, and 8 people voted against everyone.

    By the way, one of the members of the University Governing Council
    mentioned, «Everything is fabricated. They are simply playing a
    game». One of the student added, «There has been no physical
    pressure upon the students, but there has been psychological
    pressure».
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