YEREVAN.- Presidential candidate Hrant Bagratyan came to the polling station with his wife and daughter at about 1pm.

Bagratyan said he voted for his programs. “I am representing absolutely different Armenia.  I voted for a new Armenia as today’s Armenia exhausted itself in all terms. It cannot develop any longer,” he said.

The candidate said the reports on violations had been received, in particular from Stepanavan town.

The sixth presidential election in Armenia got underway Monday at 8am, and it will continue until 8pm.

The seven presidential candidates that are running in the election are: Ruling Republican Party leader and incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, opposition Heritage Party Chairman and former FM Raffi Hovannisian, opposition Freedom Party Chairman and former PM Hrant Bagratyan, opposition National Self-Determination Union Chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic former FM Arman Melikyan, “Radio Hay” Company Manager and political scientist Andreas Ghukasyan, and non-party affiliate and epic poetry specialist Vardan Sedrakyan.

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