Raffi Hovannisian, the main opposition candidate in the Armenian presidential election, rallied thousands of supporters in Yerevan on Wednesday to again reject the official vote results as fraudulent and demand President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Tuesday insisted that he is the rightful winner of Monday’s presidential election and rejected as fraudulent official vote results giving victory to President Serzh Sarkisian.
Armenia’s presidential election can already be considered free and fair, the authorities in Yerevan declared on Monday evening amid fraud allegations made by at least one of the opposition candidates. (UPDATED)
Campaigning in Armenia’s presidential election officially drew to a close on Saturday, with President Serzh Sarkisian again lavishing praise on his main challengers just one day after accusing them of irresponsible populism.
Robert Kocharian was a more successful president than his successor Serzh Sarkisian, according to a leader of the Armenian National Congress (HAK), an opposition alliance highly critical of both men.
One Armenian soldier was wounded in what the Defense Ministry in Yerevan described as intense gunfire opened by the Azerbaijani army on several border villages in northeastern Armenia on Tuesday.
Vartan Sedrakian, a maverick presidential candidate, claimed on Tuesday that the Armenian authorities plan to arrest and unjustly accuse him of masterminding a recent shooting attack on another contender, Paruyr Hayrikian.
Paruyr Hayrikian, a presidential candidate wounded in an apparent assassination attempt, petitioned Armenia’s Constitutional Court to postpone the upcoming election on Sunday only to withdraw the demand the following day.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) urged opposition presidential candidate Andreas Ghukasian to end his hunger strike that entered its 18th day on Friday.
Relatives of protesters killed during the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan have sued the Education Ministry in connection with a new history textbook that blames the Armenian opposition for the bloodshed.
Presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikian announced on Tuesday that he will not seek to delay Armenia’s upcoming presidential election because of an apparent assassination attempt, meaning that it will be held as planned on February 18. (UPDATED)
Paruyr Hayrikian, a presidential candidate who was shot and wounded by unknown assailants last week, said on Monday that he has still not decided whether to seek a two-week postponement of Armenia’s February 18 presidential election.
Paruyr Hayrikian, an opposition candidate in Armenia’s upcoming presidential election, was rushed to hospital after being shot and wounded in downtown Yerevan in unclear circumstances on Thursday night. (UPDATED)
Human Rights Watch has expressed serious concern over controversial prison sentences given to four Armenian opposition activists who clashed with police in downtown Yerevan in 2011.
Opposition candidate Raffi Hovannisian on Thursday accused the authorities of forcing public sector employees to vote for Serzh Sarkisian and committing other violations ahead of next month’s presidential election.
The Armenian police on Wednesday pledged to spare no effort to prevent and thoroughly investigate possible irregularities in the upcoming presidential election.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe officially launched on Friday yet another vote monitoring mission in Armenia that should essentially determine the international legitimacy of next month’s Armenian presidential election.
Levon Ter-Petrosian did not retire from active politics with his decision not to run in the upcoming presidential election, a top aide to the leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Wednesday.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Tuesday that it is continuing to consider ways of its participation in the upcoming presidential election despite its leader Levon Ter-Petrosian’s withdrawal from the race.
In what was his first public speech in six months delivered over the weekend, opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian declined to clarify whether he will run in Armenia’s upcoming presidential election.
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