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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SAYS HIS FORMER RIVAL REFUSED TO HEAD UP COUNCIL ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
Interfax, Russia
March 19, 2013 Tuesday 3:09 PM MSK
Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the opposition party Heritage, who
recently lost the presidential elections in Armenia, has refused
to head up the council on constitutional reform, Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan said.
"During our meeting with Ovannisyan, we reached an agreement to make
written proposals. I suggested creating a council on constitutional
reform headed by him, drawing up changes to the constitution,
and organizing a referendum," Sargsyan told a press conference on
Monday evening.
"I sent my written proposals, but they came back to me with a crossed
out," Sargsyan said.
The Armenian president also said he has asked Ovannisyan if he
believes he won the presidential elections, and the answer was
negative. However, Sargsyan said Ovannisyan believes all of the
members of his team are confident that the incumbent president did
not win the elections.
Ovannisyan is protesting the official outcome of the recent
presidential elections in Armenia. According to the Armenian Central
Elections Commission, 58.64% of the voters voted for incumbent
President Serzh Sargsyan and 36.74% voted for Sargsyan.
On Thursday, the Armenian Constitutional Court declined Ovannisyan's
lawsuit seeking the invalidation of the election outcome. The
opposition politician went on hunger strike on March 10. ON February
21, Ovannisyan met with Sargsyan. Ovannisyan then told his supporters
that no agreements had been reached in that meeting.
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Interfax, Russia
March 19, 2013 Tuesday 3:09 PM MSK
Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the opposition party Heritage, who
recently lost the presidential elections in Armenia, has refused
to head up the council on constitutional reform, Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan said.
"During our meeting with Ovannisyan, we reached an agreement to make
written proposals. I suggested creating a council on constitutional
reform headed by him, drawing up changes to the constitution,
and organizing a referendum," Sargsyan told a press conference on
Monday evening.
"I sent my written proposals, but they came back to me with a crossed
out," Sargsyan said.
The Armenian president also said he has asked Ovannisyan if he
believes he won the presidential elections, and the answer was
negative. However, Sargsyan said Ovannisyan believes all of the
members of his team are confident that the incumbent president did
not win the elections.
Ovannisyan is protesting the official outcome of the recent
presidential elections in Armenia. According to the Armenian Central
Elections Commission, 58.64% of the voters voted for incumbent
President Serzh Sargsyan and 36.74% voted for Sargsyan.
On Thursday, the Armenian Constitutional Court declined Ovannisyan's
lawsuit seeking the invalidation of the election outcome. The
opposition politician went on hunger strike on March 10. ON February
21, Ovannisyan met with Sargsyan. Ovannisyan then told his supporters
that no agreements had been reached in that meeting.
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