Armenian opposition plans rallies in regions

Interfax News Agency, Russia
Russia & CIS General Newswire
February 29, 2008 Friday 12:00 PM MSK

YEREVAN Feb 29 — Supporters of losing candidate for the Armenian
presidency, former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian are going
to stage protest actions across various regions.

"Our goal is to paralyze the Serzh Sargsyan authorities," Nikol
Pashinian, the head of Ter-Petrosian’s electoral headquarters and
editor-in-chief of the Aikakan Zhamanak (The Armenian Times) newspaper,
said at a rally on Liberty square in Yerevan.

A protest with the demand to invalidate the results of the presidential
election has already taken place in the town of Noyemberian, he said.

"Such actions should ‘proliferate’ to all other regions in the
country," he said.

Sargsyan won the February 19 presidential election in Armenia however
Ter-Petrosian supporters are unhappy with the election results and
demand to invalidate them.