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    NO CANDIDATE FOR ARMENIAN PRESIDENCY QUITS THE RACE

    Interfax News Agency
    Russia & CIS Presidential Bulletin
    February 11, 2008
    Russia

    All nine candidates for the Armenian presidency will continue
    running in the electoral race, head of the Armenian Central Elections
    Commission (CEC) Garegin Azarian told a news conference in Yerevan
    late last week.

    None of the candidates disqualified themselves by the deadline
    stipulated by the Electoral Code and none sent a relevant application
    to the CEC. The deadline was 6 p.m. local time on February 9, he said.

    Press secretary of the Armenian CEC Tatev Oganian told Interfax that
    the form of ballots was approved at a CEC meeting. The candidates
    are sorted by name on the ballot.

    The first on the list is leader of the Orinats Yerkir party Artur
    Bagdasarian, National Unity party leader Artashes Gegamian, People's
    Party leader Tigran Karapetian, National Accord party leader Aram
    Arutyunian, National Assembly Deputy Speaker and member of the
    Dashnaktsutiun party bureau Vaan Ovannisian, former Prime Minister and
    leader of the opposition National Democratic Union Vazgen Manukian,
    and former advisor to the president of Nagorno-Karabakh Armen
    Melikian,,Prime Minister and Republican Party leader Serzh Sargsyan,
    and former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian.

    A ballot lacks an 'against all' entry, Oganian said. A Yerevan
    publishing house will begin printing electoral ballots on Sunday. All
    2.39 million ballots will be printed by February 16.

    Meanwhile, commenting on the situation that a candidate has filed
    a claim at the Supreme Court demanding to postpone the day of the
    elections, Azarian said that if the Supreme Court rules to postpone
    the day of the elections, the process of printing ballots will be
    suspended.
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