YEREVAN. – Armenia’s presidential contender, non-party affiliate and epic poetry specialist, Vardan Sedrakyan issued a statement in his Facebook page, with respect to Monday’s presidential vote, and he thanked his supporters.

“Stay strong in your faith! A very little time will pass, and everyone will come to understand who was fair and who, [was] unfair. Who was solving his personal matters on behalf of the [Armenian] nation, and who was truly fighting for justice.    

The nation will give its appraisal, and our time will come. And we ultimately will be able to reinstate the laws of justice in Armenia,” Sedrakyan specifically noted in his statement.  

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, 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%).

Note that Presidential Elections were held in Armenia on Monday, and the seven candidates that ran in the voting were: 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.