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WPS Agency, Russia
February 21, 2013 Thursday
ULTIMATUM TO THE PRESIDENT
by: Yuri Simonjan
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 34, February 21, 2013, p. 6
RAFFI OVANNISJAN IS STIRRING ARMENIA WITH DEMANDS TO PRESIDENT-ELECT
SERJ SARGSJAN; Presidential election in Armenia is over. Losers in the
presidential race make trouble.
Raffi Ovannisjan, Legacy party leader and ex-foreign minister who came
in second in the presidential race in Armenia, threatened
the authorities with mass protests unless president-elect Serj
Sargsjan met with him to discuss delegation of power.
Save for Sargsjan, all other participants in the election called the
election rigged. Ovannisjan was announced to have polled 36%, much
more than all other candidates save for the winner. The statements the
others made following the election indicated the intention to make
Ovannisjan their informal leader and back his demands.
Ovannisjan appealed to his supporters and followers to stage a mass
protest action unless Sargsjan agreed to meet with his to discuss
"surrender" and admitted that he, Sargsjan, had polled only 20% and
Ovannisjan, 80%.
Presidential press service released a statement to the effect that
Sargsjan had agreed to meet with Ovannisjan and listen to him. Mass
protests in the center of Yerevan began all the same.
WPS'2013
From: A. Papazian
February 21, 2013 Thursday
ULTIMATUM TO THE PRESIDENT
by: Yuri Simonjan
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, No 34, February 21, 2013, p. 6
RAFFI OVANNISJAN IS STIRRING ARMENIA WITH DEMANDS TO PRESIDENT-ELECT
SERJ SARGSJAN; Presidential election in Armenia is over. Losers in the
presidential race make trouble.
Raffi Ovannisjan, Legacy party leader and ex-foreign minister who came
in second in the presidential race in Armenia, threatened
the authorities with mass protests unless president-elect Serj
Sargsjan met with him to discuss delegation of power.
Save for Sargsjan, all other participants in the election called the
election rigged. Ovannisjan was announced to have polled 36%, much
more than all other candidates save for the winner. The statements the
others made following the election indicated the intention to make
Ovannisjan their informal leader and back his demands.
Ovannisjan appealed to his supporters and followers to stage a mass
protest action unless Sargsjan agreed to meet with his to discuss
"surrender" and admitted that he, Sargsjan, had polled only 20% and
Ovannisjan, 80%.
Presidential press service released a statement to the effect that
Sargsjan had agreed to meet with Ovannisjan and listen to him. Mass
protests in the center of Yerevan began all the same.
WPS'2013
From: A. Papazian