As of 8 pm, the Central Electoral Commission reports that 1,518,407 of the 2,528,465 registered voters in Armenia have cast ballots in today’s presidential election.
At Raffi Hovannisian’s campaign headquarters the phones have not stopped ringing since polling stations opened this morning.
At Raffi Hovannisian’s campaign headquarters the phones have not stopped ringing since polling stations opened this morning.
As of 5 pm, Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission reports that 1,259374 of the 2,528,465 registered voters in Armenia have cast ballots in today’s presidential election.
On February 17 the “Hayartun” Cultural Center of the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church in Georgia hosted in the Hall of Calouste Gulbenkian another charity concert to support the Armenians of Syria. Talented performers Nina Karapetyan and Genrikh Petrosyan appeared in solo concert.
None of the opposition candidates have certified representatives at the three polling stations in the Lori village of Otzoun. Neither are there any outside election monitors on site.
As of 2pm, 377 of the 1,682 registered voters at Yerevan’s 10/22 polling station have cast ballots.
One cabby waiting outside the 19/18 polling station told me they be at it all day but refused to say how much they were getting paid. “It’s a major secret,” he confessed.
The Gala-Asparez newspaper reports that the president of the 35/39 polling station committee (Gyumri) has prohibited reporters and election monitors from leaving their designated places in order to more closely observe the ballot process.
I found out that his name is Vahan, the “certified representative” of President Sargsyan overseeing the voting at the 34/27 polling station in Gymri’s Slabodga neighborhood. I caught him approaching voters and muttering something – it was the number “six”.
Hetq has a reporter at the scene monitoring events and has noted that a photo of President Sargsyan is plainly on view within the polling place.
President Serzh Sargsyan and his wife Rita cast their ballots earlier today at the 9/11 polling station in Yerevan.
From his makeshift tent where he’s been on hunger strike for the past 29 days, presidential candidate Andreas Ghoukasyan told Hetq that he will not file a protest regarding the election outcome with the Constitutional Court.
Gala TV claims it has proof that Republican Party MP Samvel Aleksanyan is ferrying workers from the sugar factory he owns in Akhurian to Yerevan to cast ballots in today’s presidential election.
The Media Center reports that it received word from a Heritage Party member on the local election board in the Lori town of Tashir that two attempts were made to stuff the ballot box at the 35/5 polling station
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