Andreas Ghukasyan: Republican Party of Armenia is at the end of its resources to rule the country legitimately

• Thursday, February 21, 17:30

 The Feb 18 2013 presidential election has once again demonstrated that the country's authorities are unable to hold honest and transparent elections and it has become clear that the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is at the end of its own resources to rule the country legitimately, presidential candidate Andreas Ghukasyan says in his statement.

"During the voting half a million of voters turned against the ruling regime. It's time for the people to decide the political future of the country themselves. The country's citizens and the political forces may set up a national Council that will assume the responsibility to hold the second round of honest and transparent
elections. For the welfare of our motherland, I call on the citizens to join efforts and not to allow anybody to break the people's striving for democratic and lawful Armenia", Ghukasyan says in his statement.

To note, according to the preliminary results of the Feb 18 election, the incumbent President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan obtained 58.64% (861,160 votes), the leader of Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisian - 36.75% (539,672), Hrant Bagratyan - 2.15%, Paruyr Hayrikyan - 1.23%, Andreas Ghukasyan - 0.57%, Vardan Sedrakyan - 0.42%, Arman Melikyan - 0.24%. The voter turnout was 1,518,407 or 60.05% of the total number of voters of the republic.