NIKOL PASHINIAN LOST BY-ELECTIONS TO ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT
Aysor
Jan 11 2010
Armenia
Armenia’s Central Election Commission has issued the results for
by-elections to Armenian Parliament, according to which some 13 380
voters went to the polls.
The report showed that a member of Armenian Party of the National
Unity, Ara Simonian, won the elections after 7622 voters picked him.
Nikol Pashinian, a chief editor of the oppositional Haykakan Zhamanak
newspaper and a defendant in the case of March 1 2008 clashes, lost
with 5023 votes.
The head of the Marxist Party of Armenia David Hakobyan received
299 votes.