YEREVAN. – Armenia’s opposition People’s Party Chairman Tigran Karapetyan welcomes the triumph of opposition Heritage Party leader, former FM Raffi Hovannisian—who is declared runner-up to the winner, incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, as a result of the presidential election that was conducted on February 18, but who claims to be the real winner in the vote and who declared a hunger strike on March 10 at capital city Yerevan’s Liberty Square. Karapetyan himself stated this during a press conference on Monday.    

In his words, this victory is due to the fact that the current authorities’ election campaign slogan of “Toward a Secure Armenia” does not correspond to the reality. Furthermore, as per Karapetyan, a large number of the body politic hated the powers that be, and therefore such attitude would have emerged sooner or later.   

“You know my [not too positive] view about Raffi Hovannisian, but I congratulate [him],” Tigran Karapetyan said.

He also pointed to the fact that when he clashed with President Sargsyan, all the doors were closed before him.