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ARMENIANS HOLD COMPETING PRESIDENTIAL SWEARING-IN CEREMONIES
Transitions online, Czech Rep.
April 10 2013
Continuing to question the results of the 18 February election
that gave Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan another term in office,
former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian held his own "alternative"
inauguration in Freedom Square in the capital, Yerevan, on 9 April,
The Armenian Weekly reports.
The fight against what he and his supporters allege were fixed
elections, leaving Hovannisian a distant second to the president,
"does not end today," he said, referring to Sargsyan's official
inauguration across town.
But the president's swearing-in went off without a hitch in spite of
the opposition protesters who attempted to march near the presidential
administration building, according to Reuters. Police stopped the
demonstrators, who then returned to Freedom Square.
For the actual inauguration, Sargsyan said he would focus his new
term on building Armenia's economy, improving its system of justice,
bolstering democracy, and seeking an end to the long-running conflict
with Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh,
Reuters reports.
http://www.tol.org/client/article/23708-mourning-in-serbia-competing-inaugurations-in-armenia-.html
Transitions online, Czech Rep.
April 10 2013
Continuing to question the results of the 18 February election
that gave Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan another term in office,
former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian held his own "alternative"
inauguration in Freedom Square in the capital, Yerevan, on 9 April,
The Armenian Weekly reports.
The fight against what he and his supporters allege were fixed
elections, leaving Hovannisian a distant second to the president,
"does not end today," he said, referring to Sargsyan's official
inauguration across town.
But the president's swearing-in went off without a hitch in spite of
the opposition protesters who attempted to march near the presidential
administration building, according to Reuters. Police stopped the
demonstrators, who then returned to Freedom Square.
For the actual inauguration, Sargsyan said he would focus his new
term on building Armenia's economy, improving its system of justice,
bolstering democracy, and seeking an end to the long-running conflict
with Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh,
Reuters reports.
http://www.tol.org/client/article/23708-mourning-in-serbia-competing-inaugurations-in-armenia-.html