make preferable“Hayrikyan supporters, hold your heads high! We withstood against a direct terrorism and the ensuing widespread smear campaign.
We know that our [election] campaign was interrupted on January 31 and, up until [the presidential election day on Monday,] February 18, we were maintaining solely the phenomenon of running [in the election], so that this assassination attempt could be disregarded, [and] terrorism could have felt itself alien and strange in
[But] it is interesting. What will those, who were talking nonsense that Hayrikyan is the ‘man’ of the authorities, babble now?
I’m not sad, you likewise don’t be sad! And those who create intrigues against us still do not know what awaits them,” Hayrikyan specifically wrote in his Facebook page.
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 861,160 votes (58.64%), Raffi Hovannisian garnered 539,672 votes (36.75%), Hrant Bagratyan gathered 31,643 votes (2.15%), Paruyr Hayrikyan earned 18,093 votes (1.23%), Andreas Ghukasyan gained 8,328 votes (0.57%), Vardan Sedrakyan acquired 6,203 votes (0.42%), and Arman Melikyan collected 3,516 votes (0.24%) in Monday’s presidential election.
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.
Photo by Arsen Sargsyan/NEWS.am
