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RAFFI HOVANNISIAN'S SUPPORTERS TO SET UP FUND TO RAISE MONEY FOR HIM TO CONTINUE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY
YEREVAN, March 15. / ARKA /. Supporters of Heritage Party leader
Raffi Hovhannisyan intend to set up a fund to finance his struggle
for democratic Armenia.
On March 14, Armenia's Constitutional Court rejected the claims of
Raffi Hovannisian and another former presidential candidate Andrias
Ghukasyan that the February 18 presidential election was rigged in
favor of incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan.
Hovannisian and Ghukasyan had asked the Court to reject the election
results, but the Court denied their claims, upholding the Central
Election Commission's (CEC) final assessment that there had not been
major violations affecting the final outcome of the poll.
According to the CEC, Sargsyan secured 58.64 percent of the 1,521,261
votes cast, while , Raffi Hovannisian garnered 36.75 percent of
the votes.
"I think it is going to be a powerful wave, a move that will help
collect funds to continue the fight," a member of Heritage Party,
Anahit Bakhshyan, told a rally in Liberty Square today. She said
soon a bank account will be announced for all those who support
Hovannisian's struggle to transfer funds.
On March 10, Hovannisian began a hunger strike, telling his supporters
'If on April 9 Mr. Sargsyan takes the false oath of office on the
Holy Bible and the constitution and if His Holiness Catholicos Karekin
II thus desecrates the Bible by blessing a candidate who derides the
people, they will do that on my corpse." -0-
YEREVAN, March 15. / ARKA /. Supporters of Heritage Party leader
Raffi Hovhannisyan intend to set up a fund to finance his struggle
for democratic Armenia.
On March 14, Armenia's Constitutional Court rejected the claims of
Raffi Hovannisian and another former presidential candidate Andrias
Ghukasyan that the February 18 presidential election was rigged in
favor of incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan.
Hovannisian and Ghukasyan had asked the Court to reject the election
results, but the Court denied their claims, upholding the Central
Election Commission's (CEC) final assessment that there had not been
major violations affecting the final outcome of the poll.
According to the CEC, Sargsyan secured 58.64 percent of the 1,521,261
votes cast, while , Raffi Hovannisian garnered 36.75 percent of
the votes.
"I think it is going to be a powerful wave, a move that will help
collect funds to continue the fight," a member of Heritage Party,
Anahit Bakhshyan, told a rally in Liberty Square today. She said
soon a bank account will be announced for all those who support
Hovannisian's struggle to transfer funds.
On March 10, Hovannisian began a hunger strike, telling his supporters
'If on April 9 Mr. Sargsyan takes the false oath of office on the
Holy Bible and the constitution and if His Holiness Catholicos Karekin
II thus desecrates the Bible by blessing a candidate who derides the
people, they will do that on my corpse." -0-