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PROFILE: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT-ELECT SERZH SARGSYAN
NZ Week, New Zealand
Feb 19 2013
YEREVAN, Feb. 19 - Incumbent Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was
re-elected on Monday with 58.64 percent of the vote, the Armenian
Central Electoral Commission said.
A total of 1,518,407 voters have cast their ballots in 1,988 polling
stations across the country for a turnout rate of 60.05 percent.
Born in 1954, Serzh Sargsyan came into the country's political
picture by chairing the self-defense forces for Nagorno-Karabakh,
a region disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan during 1989-1993.
He then became the Armenian defense minister in 1993 and the country's
national security minister in 1996, before becoming the chief of
staff for Armenia's second elected president Robert Kocharyan and
the country's prime minister in 2007.
With the backing of Kocharyan, Sargsyan won the 2008 presidential
election in the first round. But the result was disputed by his
arch-rival, Armenia's first elected president Levon Ter-Petrosian,
whose supporters held a week-long protest at the Yerevan Freedom
Square accusing Kocharyan of rigging the election in favor of Sargsyan.
The protest ended in bloodshed between protesters and the police.
During his first term in office, Sargsyan launched an effort on
anti-corruption especially in the country's customs system, which he
described as with "thriving corruption."
Graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1979 with a philosophy
major, Sargsyan married Rita in 1983 and now has two daughters.
Apart from his political position, Sargsyan also chairs the Armenian
Chess Federation.
YEREVAN, Feb. 19 - Incumbent Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was
re-elected on Monday with 58.64 percent of the vote, the Armenian
Central Electoral Commission said.
A total of 1,518,407 voters have cast their ballots in 1,988 polling
stations across the country for a turnout rate of 60.05 percent.
Born in 1954, Serzh Sargsyan came into the country's political
picture by chairing the self-defense forces for Nagorno-Karabakh,
a region disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan during 1989-1993.
He then became the Armenian defense minister in 1993 and the country's
national security minister in 1996, before becoming the chief of
staff for Armenia's second elected president Robert Kocharyan and
the country's prime minister in 2007.
With the backing of Kocharyan, Sargsyan won the 2008 presidential
election in the first round. But the result was disputed by his
arch-rival, Armenia's first elected president Levon Ter-Petrosian,
whose supporters held a week-long protest at the Yerevan Freedom
Square accusing Kocharyan of rigging the election in favor of Sargsyan.
The protest ended in bloodshed between protesters and the police.
During his first term in office, Sargsyan launched an effort on
anti-corruption especially in the country's customs system, which he
described as with "thriving corruption."
Graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1979 with a philosophy
major, Sargsyan married Rita in 1983 and now has two daughters.
Apart from his political position, Sargsyan also chairs the Armenian
Chess Federation.
YEREVAN, Feb. 19 - Incumbent Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was
re-elected on Monday with 58.64 percent of the vote, the Armenian
Central Electoral Commission said.
A total of 1,518,407 voters have cast their ballots in 1,988 polling
stations across the country for a turnout rate of 60.05 percent.
Born in 1954, Serzh Sargsyan came into the country's political
picture by chairing the self-defense forces for Nagorno-Karabakh,
a region disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan during 1989-1993.
He then became the Armenian defense minister in 1993 and the country's
national security minister in 1996, before becoming the chief of
staff for Armenia's second elected president Robert Kocharyan and
the country's prime minister in 2007.
With the backing of Kocharyan, Sargsyan won the 2008 presidential
election in the first round. But the result was disputed by his
arch-rival, Armenia's first elected president Levon Ter-Petrosian,
whose supporters held a week-long protest at the Yerevan Freedom
Square accusing Kocharyan of rigging the election in favor of Sargsyan.
The protest ended in bloodshed between protesters and the police.
During his first term in office, Sargsyan launched an effort on
anti-corruption especially in the country's customs system, which he
described as with "thriving corruption."
Graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1979 with a philosophy
major, Sargsyan married Rita in 1983 and now has two daughters.
Apart from his political position, Sargsyan also chairs the Armenian
Chess Federation.
NZ Week, New Zealand
Feb 19 2013
YEREVAN, Feb. 19 - Incumbent Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was
re-elected on Monday with 58.64 percent of the vote, the Armenian
Central Electoral Commission said.
A total of 1,518,407 voters have cast their ballots in 1,988 polling
stations across the country for a turnout rate of 60.05 percent.
Born in 1954, Serzh Sargsyan came into the country's political
picture by chairing the self-defense forces for Nagorno-Karabakh,
a region disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan during 1989-1993.
He then became the Armenian defense minister in 1993 and the country's
national security minister in 1996, before becoming the chief of
staff for Armenia's second elected president Robert Kocharyan and
the country's prime minister in 2007.
With the backing of Kocharyan, Sargsyan won the 2008 presidential
election in the first round. But the result was disputed by his
arch-rival, Armenia's first elected president Levon Ter-Petrosian,
whose supporters held a week-long protest at the Yerevan Freedom
Square accusing Kocharyan of rigging the election in favor of Sargsyan.
The protest ended in bloodshed between protesters and the police.
During his first term in office, Sargsyan launched an effort on
anti-corruption especially in the country's customs system, which he
described as with "thriving corruption."
Graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1979 with a philosophy
major, Sargsyan married Rita in 1983 and now has two daughters.
Apart from his political position, Sargsyan also chairs the Armenian
Chess Federation.
YEREVAN, Feb. 19 - Incumbent Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was
re-elected on Monday with 58.64 percent of the vote, the Armenian
Central Electoral Commission said.
A total of 1,518,407 voters have cast their ballots in 1,988 polling
stations across the country for a turnout rate of 60.05 percent.
Born in 1954, Serzh Sargsyan came into the country's political
picture by chairing the self-defense forces for Nagorno-Karabakh,
a region disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan during 1989-1993.
He then became the Armenian defense minister in 1993 and the country's
national security minister in 1996, before becoming the chief of
staff for Armenia's second elected president Robert Kocharyan and
the country's prime minister in 2007.
With the backing of Kocharyan, Sargsyan won the 2008 presidential
election in the first round. But the result was disputed by his
arch-rival, Armenia's first elected president Levon Ter-Petrosian,
whose supporters held a week-long protest at the Yerevan Freedom
Square accusing Kocharyan of rigging the election in favor of Sargsyan.
The protest ended in bloodshed between protesters and the police.
During his first term in office, Sargsyan launched an effort on
anti-corruption especially in the country's customs system, which he
described as with "thriving corruption."
Graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1979 with a philosophy
major, Sargsyan married Rita in 1983 and now has two daughters.
Apart from his political position, Sargsyan also chairs the Armenian
Chess Federation.
YEREVAN, Feb. 19 - Incumbent Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was
re-elected on Monday with 58.64 percent of the vote, the Armenian
Central Electoral Commission said.
A total of 1,518,407 voters have cast their ballots in 1,988 polling
stations across the country for a turnout rate of 60.05 percent.
Born in 1954, Serzh Sargsyan came into the country's political
picture by chairing the self-defense forces for Nagorno-Karabakh,
a region disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan during 1989-1993.
He then became the Armenian defense minister in 1993 and the country's
national security minister in 1996, before becoming the chief of
staff for Armenia's second elected president Robert Kocharyan and
the country's prime minister in 2007.
With the backing of Kocharyan, Sargsyan won the 2008 presidential
election in the first round. But the result was disputed by his
arch-rival, Armenia's first elected president Levon Ter-Petrosian,
whose supporters held a week-long protest at the Yerevan Freedom
Square accusing Kocharyan of rigging the election in favor of Sargsyan.
The protest ended in bloodshed between protesters and the police.
During his first term in office, Sargsyan launched an effort on
anti-corruption especially in the country's customs system, which he
described as with "thriving corruption."
Graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1979 with a philosophy
major, Sargsyan married Rita in 1983 and now has two daughters.
Apart from his political position, Sargsyan also chairs the Armenian
Chess Federation.