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    5,000 PROTESTERS DISPUTE ARMENIA ELECTION RESULT

    Thegardenisland.com, Hawaii
    Feb 20 2013

    YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) - About 5,000 supporters of a presidential
    candidate in Armenia, who has lost to the incumbent, have protested
    the election results.

    President Serge Sarkisian easily won a second five-year term in
    Monday's vote, getting nearly 59 percent of the vote. The closest of
    his six rivals, American-born Raffi Hovanessian, polled 37 percent.

    Hovanessian, Armenia's first foreign minister after the 1991 collapse
    of the Soviet Union, has called the election unfair and rigged,
    and declared himself the genuine winner.

    On Wednesday, about 5,000 of his supporters gathered in the capital
    to back Hovanessian's demands. Hovanessian challenged the incumbent
    to come to the square in Yerevan, and some of his followers pledged
    to remain there through the night.

    International monitors said the election "lacked competition," but
    noted improvements compared to the previous poll.

    http://thegardenisland.com/news/world/protesters-dispute-armenia-election-result/article_de3b7dee-d8bc-5362-9ea0-d162f4f646f9.html



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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