DEFEATED ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GOES TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
Interfax News Agency, Russia
Russia & CIS
February 28, 2008
Leader of the People’s Party and former Armenian presidential candidate
Tigran Karapetian has filed a lawsuit with the country’s Constitutional
Court to challenge the results of the February 19 presidential
election, the Constitutional Court told Interfax on Thursday.
According to official data by the Armenian Central Election Commission,
Karapetian mustered 0.6% of the vote.
First Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian has also announced his
intention to challenge the presidential election results. At a multi-
thousand rally in Yerevan he said he had already filed a lawsuit with
the Constitutional Court. The Court, however, denies this.
"The court has not received a lawsuit from Ter-Petrosian," CC spokesman
Ovannes Papikian told Interfax.
Ter-Petrosian should file his lawsuit no later than March 2, after
which the time period established by law expires, he added.
Leader of the National Democratic Union Vazgen Manukian and candidate
from the Armenian Dashnaktsutiun revolutionary federation Vaan
Ovannisian said earlier they were not going to appeal against election
results with the Constitutional Court.