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    ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL RUNNER-UP TO RALLY ON DISPUTED VOTE RESULT

    Bloomberg
    Feb 20 2013

    By Sara Khojoyan - Feb 20, 2013 4:22 PM GMT+0200 .

    The runner-up in this week's Armenian presidential election will hold
    a rally to dispute the results and demand the winner, incumbent Serzh
    Sargsyan, concedes defeat.

    Raffi Hovhannisyan, who garnered 37 percent of the Feb. 18 vote
    to Sargsyan's 59 percent, is planning a demonstration today in the
    capital, Yerevan. He wants the president to recognize the "people's
    victory" and start negotiations with him.

    Sargsyan is ready to meet Hovhannisyan at any time to clarify his
    "incomprehensible" statements, his spokesman, Armen Arzumanyan,
    told the panorama.am website.

    Sargsyan's victory for a second term solidifies his standing after
    his Republican Party won a parliamentary ballot last year in the
    landlocked country that borders Iran and Turkey and fought a war with
    neighbor Azerbaijan over a disputed region two decades ago.

    Presidential elections in 2008 triggered bloody scenes as 10 people
    died amid clashes between opposition protesters and police.

    Armenia's dram, which has lost 4.2 percent against the dollar over the
    last year, was down 0.1 percent at 406.9501 at 6:15 p.m. in Yerevan,
    data compiled by Bloomberg show.

    While observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation
    in Europe noted an improvement in the vote's conduct, Hovhannisyan
    said yesterday that the results don't "reflect the will of the people."

    Addressing about 2,000 people in Liberty Square in Yerevan,
    Hovhannisyan, whose Heritage Party won 5.8 percent of votes in
    parliamentary elections last May, accused the Central Electoral
    Commission of making a "false calculation."

    In an e-mailed statement today, Heritage said it's filed reports
    detailing more than a hundred violations and complained about a
    recount of ballots initiated without notification.

    Hovhannisyan's official showing was better than expected, according
    to Alexander Iskandaryan, director of the Caucasus Institute. That
    support reflects anti-Sargsyan sentiment, he told reporters today.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/armenian-presidential-runner-up-to-rally-on-disputed-vote-result.html

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