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    SARGSIAN: ARMENIAN CONSTITUTION PREVENTED SEIZURE OF POWER

    Anadolu Agency (AA), Turkey
    February 17, 2013 Sunday

    Armenian presidential candidates delivered their last speeches before
    coming election.

    YEREVAN

    Reporting by Halit Gulsen

    "Silence" began in Armenia a day before the country holds presidential
    elections.

    Armenian presidential candidates delivered their last campaign
    speeches on Saturday and they, according to Armenian election laws,
    can not deliver speeches or campaign as of Sunday.

    As such, Sunday is described as the day of "silence" in Armenia.

    Addressing the Armenian people on a TV channel, the current Armenian
    President Serzh Sargsian stressed that the "Armenian Constitution
    prevented the seizure of power."

    Accordingly, the word 'revolution' in Armenia refers to not a change
    in the government system but rather a constitutional change, Sargsian
    noted.

    A major contender for Sargsian, former Armenian Foreign Minister and
    the leader of the Heritage Party, Raffi Hovhannisian said that the
    people of Armenia would struggle in the elections for the country's
    future.

    In the past 20 years, the Armenian people lost faith in the elections,
    Hovhannisian stated.

    Paruyr Hayrikyan, a candidate for president and the leader of the
    Union for National Self-Determination (UNSD) said that if opposition
    candidates united, President Sargsian would be defeated and the second
    leg of the elections would have to take place.

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