YEREVAN.- Presidential candidate Hrant Bagratyan is not commenting on elections, he told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Bagratyan, who polled only 2.15% of votes, said he would hold a press conference to issue a statement, but did not clarify the exact time.

Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) issued preliminary results of Monday’s presidential election.

In line with preliminary data, and as a result of the tally of the ballots that were cast in Armenia’s 1,988 polling precincts, incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan received 861,378 votes (58.64%), Raffi Hovannisian garnered 539,674 votes (36.74%), Hrant Bagratyan gathered 31,643 votes (2.15%), Paruyr Hayrikyan earned 18,093 votes (1.23%), Andreas Ghukasyan gained 8,328 votes (0.57%), Arman Melikyan collected 3,520 votes (0.24%), and Vardan Sedrakyan acquired 6,203 votes (0.42%).