STEPANAKERT. – A fourth candidate is nominated for the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s (NKR), or Artsakh’s, presidential elections slated for July 19. Non-party affiliate, unemployed 65-year-old Valeri Khachatryan has self-nominated as presidential candidate, NKR Central Election Commission informs.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, nominations are already submitted by the incumbent President Bako Sahakyan; Artsakh’s Hero, MP, former Deputy Defense Minister Vitali Balasanyan; and Deputy Director of Academic Activities at the NKR capital Stepanakert Branch of State Agrarian University of Armenia, Arkadi Soghomonyan. 

The deadline for submitting nominations is Saturday at 6pm.

The previous NKR presidential elections were conducted on July 19, 2007, and Bako Sahakyan was elected Head of State with 85.12 percent of the votes.