YEREVAN. – Tuesday’s day of swearing in was a day of marching in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan. Opposition singer-songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan stated this during a press conference on Wednesday, and added that he and his family did not vote on presidential election day, since he knew who would be elected, and how.

In his words, those that have gathered around opposition Heritage Party Chairman, former FM Raffi Hovannisian—who was 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—gathered around him because they are against the present-day halls of power.       

“We have a humanist police chief, without quotation marks, but tomorrow he could be humanist with quotation marks,” Hakhverdyan said, and noted that Armenia’s Chief of Police, Vladimir Gasparyan, had instructions to not fire upon the people.

And the people “clinched on to Raffi, since he is the decent man from among them,” Ruben Hakhverdyan added.    

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