ARMENIA ELECTION: RE-COUNT STARTED IN SOME POLLING STATIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.02.2008 13:13 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ At the instance of Orinats Yerkir party members, who
nominated their Artur Baghdassaryan for the post of President, re-count
of votes has started in over 100 polling stations, IA Regnum reports.

The February 19 presidential election was won by RA Prime Minister
Serzh Sargsyan who garnered 52,86% of votes. He was followed by first
President’s Levon Ter-Petrosyan (21,5%), Orinats Yerkir leader Artur
Baghdassaryan (16,66%), ARF Dashnaktsutyun candidate Vahan Hovhannisian
(6,2%). The other candidates received insignificant number of votes.

The International Election Observation Mission said in its statement
that the election was conducted mostly in line with the country’s
international commitments.

The President of the Republic of Armenia is elected for a 5-year term.