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Decision 2013: Hovannisian tours regions as part of his BAREVolution campaign
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VOTE 2013 | 24.02.13 | 19:59
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian, who is disputing President Serzh
Sargsyan's official reelection, made a five-stop tour of provinces on
Saturday visiting major towns and areas where he garnered considerable
support in the Monday ballot.
In Ashtarak, Vanadzor and Gyumri Hovannisian and his team held public
rallies attracting thousands of local people, urging them to come to
Yerevan on Sunday for a big gathering in Liberty Square to push for a
power change.
Enlarge Photo
Hovannisian, who believes himself to be the rightful winner of the
presidential election despite his officially announced preliminary
score of close to 37 percent as opposed to Sargsyan's count of about
59 percent, said on Friday that all of his offers of compromise,
including a repeat election and snap parliamentary polls, had been
rejected by the incumbent president.
Addressing his supporters at the Saturday rallies the opposition
leader said that his campaign (already dubbed by many as BAREVolution,
a blend Armenian/English word meaning the revolution of greetings)
could last `a week, a month or a year', but he assured the people that
he would not give it up.
Like in his earlier public speeches in Yerevan, Hovannisian again
stressed that this time around the demand for the transfer of power
would be carried out exclusively by a constitutional and peaceful way.
At the same time, he warned police and other state authorities against
putting pressure on people.
Concerns were voiced in all places that roads leading to Yerevan would
be blocked on Sunday, making travel for thousands of Hovannisian
supporters from the region to the capital impossible.
`We will register all such violations,' emphasized Hovannisian,
addressing his supporters in Gyumri, where he polled up to 70 percent
of the vote last Monday.
`But I will be coming here again any way,' he added, drawing cheers
from the enthused crowd.
The police issued a statement earlier on Saturday, warning that
Hovannisian rallies and meetings in all towns, including in Aparan and
Spitak, were "unauthorized" and therefore "unlawful", as will be the
rally planned in Yerevan for Sunday. The opposition leader and his
team, however, have rejected this view, saying that the people are
simply exercising their right to freedom of assembly.
http://armenianow.com/vote_2013/43849/armenia_presidential_election_2013_raffi_hovannisi an_gyumri_vanadzor_ashtarak
VOTE 2013 | 24.02.13 | 19:59
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian, who is disputing President Serzh
Sargsyan's official reelection, made a five-stop tour of provinces on
Saturday visiting major towns and areas where he garnered considerable
support in the Monday ballot.
In Ashtarak, Vanadzor and Gyumri Hovannisian and his team held public
rallies attracting thousands of local people, urging them to come to
Yerevan on Sunday for a big gathering in Liberty Square to push for a
power change.
Enlarge Photo
Hovannisian, who believes himself to be the rightful winner of the
presidential election despite his officially announced preliminary
score of close to 37 percent as opposed to Sargsyan's count of about
59 percent, said on Friday that all of his offers of compromise,
including a repeat election and snap parliamentary polls, had been
rejected by the incumbent president.
Addressing his supporters at the Saturday rallies the opposition
leader said that his campaign (already dubbed by many as BAREVolution,
a blend Armenian/English word meaning the revolution of greetings)
could last `a week, a month or a year', but he assured the people that
he would not give it up.
Like in his earlier public speeches in Yerevan, Hovannisian again
stressed that this time around the demand for the transfer of power
would be carried out exclusively by a constitutional and peaceful way.
At the same time, he warned police and other state authorities against
putting pressure on people.
Concerns were voiced in all places that roads leading to Yerevan would
be blocked on Sunday, making travel for thousands of Hovannisian
supporters from the region to the capital impossible.
`We will register all such violations,' emphasized Hovannisian,
addressing his supporters in Gyumri, where he polled up to 70 percent
of the vote last Monday.
`But I will be coming here again any way,' he added, drawing cheers
from the enthused crowd.
The police issued a statement earlier on Saturday, warning that
Hovannisian rallies and meetings in all towns, including in Aparan and
Spitak, were "unauthorized" and therefore "unlawful", as will be the
rally planned in Yerevan for Sunday. The opposition leader and his
team, however, have rejected this view, saying that the people are
simply exercising their right to freedom of assembly.