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PRESIDENT SARGSYAN SAYS WON'T MEET RAFFI HOVHHANISYAN ANY MORE
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12:14 19.03.2013
In the first post-election press conference with Armenia's broadcast
media representatives on Monday, President Serzh Sargsyan said he
will not meet Raffi Hovhannisyan any more, as by declaring a hunger
strike he put an end to the political struggle.
President Sargsyan said after rejecting Hovhannisyan's suggestion
to call snap parliamentary elections and have a run-off of the
presidential voter, he told Hovhannisyan that he had three options.
First: To go to Liberty Square and continue to insist that he has
garnered 80 percent of the votes and attempts to create alternative
structures to the authorities. In this scenario, Sarkisian said,
law enforcement agencies would do what they have been tasked to do.
Second: Raffi Hovhannisyan continues to insist that the elections were
not fair and that in reality he has garnered a higher percentage of
the votes than officially announced. He then fortifies his ranks and
takes part in the Yerevan municipal elections garnering the majority of
the votes and becomes Mayor of Yerevan, thus the leader of two-thirds
of the Republic.
Third: He ceases being part of the opposition and works within
government structures to combat corruption and emigration, as he
pledged during his campaign.
"Raffi Hovhannisyan chose the first Western option, Serzh Sargsyan
said. The President said the defeat in some cities of the republic
was an unpleasant surprise to him, but added that despite everything
he remains the President of all citizens.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/03/19/president-sargsyan-says-wont-meet-raffi-hovhhanisyan-any-more/
12:14 19.03.2013
In the first post-election press conference with Armenia's broadcast
media representatives on Monday, President Serzh Sargsyan said he
will not meet Raffi Hovhannisyan any more, as by declaring a hunger
strike he put an end to the political struggle.
President Sargsyan said after rejecting Hovhannisyan's suggestion
to call snap parliamentary elections and have a run-off of the
presidential voter, he told Hovhannisyan that he had three options.
First: To go to Liberty Square and continue to insist that he has
garnered 80 percent of the votes and attempts to create alternative
structures to the authorities. In this scenario, Sarkisian said,
law enforcement agencies would do what they have been tasked to do.
Second: Raffi Hovhannisyan continues to insist that the elections were
not fair and that in reality he has garnered a higher percentage of
the votes than officially announced. He then fortifies his ranks and
takes part in the Yerevan municipal elections garnering the majority of
the votes and becomes Mayor of Yerevan, thus the leader of two-thirds
of the Republic.
Third: He ceases being part of the opposition and works within
government structures to combat corruption and emigration, as he
pledged during his campaign.
"Raffi Hovhannisyan chose the first Western option, Serzh Sargsyan
said. The President said the defeat in some cities of the republic
was an unpleasant surprise to him, but added that despite everything
he remains the President of all citizens.