[ last updated 18:31 ] President Robert Kocharian went on national television late Friday to advise former parliament speaker Artur Baghdasarian against withdrawing his presidential candidacy in favor of another, more radical opposition contender, former President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
[ last updated 18:36 ] Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has asked the Constitutional Court to postpone Armenia’s presidential election by two weeks, citing state television’s hostile coverage of his election campaign and related political activities, it emerged on Friday.
[ last updated 18:41 ] The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rallied thousands of people in Yerevan on Friday to shore up voter support for its presidential candidate Vahan Hovannisian and urge Armenians to reject their current and former leaders.
[ last updated 18:43 ] Three opposition activists were discharged from hospital on Friday after claiming to have been beaten up by government loyalists while distributing leaflets announcing former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s next rally in Yerevan.
[ last updated 18:30 ] “Hayots Ashkhar” says “all pollsters” are predicting that Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian will not need a second round of voting to become Armenia’s next president.
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