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YEREVAN, APRIL 15, ARMENPRESS. Former prime minister and former state minister Arayik Harutyunyan has scored a landslide victory in the second round of the Artsakh presidential election, according to preliminary results.
Artsakh’s electoral board announced that Harutyunyan, the head of the Free Fatherland Party, garnered 88%, or 39860 votes.
The turnover was 45% (47165 voters).
Harutyunyan’s rival, the incumbent foreign minister Masis Mayilyan, garnered only 12% of votes.
Reporting, writing by Norayr Shoghikyan
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan