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    TER-PETROSIAN'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN LAWSUIT THROWN OUT

    Interfax News Agency
    Russia & CIS General Newswire
    February 11, 2008 Monday 9:47 PM MSK
    Russia

    Armenia's Constitutional Court threw out on Monday a suit in
    which former President Levon Ter-Petrosian sought to have alleged
    obstacles he is having in his presidential election campaign declared
    insurmountable, a ruling that would have led to the deferment of
    the election.

    Ter-Petrosian, who was the first president of post-Soviet Armenia
    and was in office in 1991-98, argued in his suit that Armenian Public
    Television had launched "an unprecedented propaganda campaign" against
    him as a result of which he was unable to campaign "on equal terms
    with the other candidates."

    The Armenian constitution prescribes putting off a presidential
    election for two weeks if any of the candidates comes up against
    "insurmountable obstacles" to their campaign. If such obstacles are
    not removed by the end of the two-week period, a new election is to
    be held on the 40th day after this period.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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