The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Monday that it has received a popular mandate to govern Yerevan for another four years amid allegations of vote rigging made by the country’s main established opposition forces.
Samvel Aleksanian, one of Armenia’s richest men close to the government, scolded his loyalists working for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) on Sunday after they allegedly bullied voters and observers in his de facto fiefdom in Yerevan notorious for election-related violations.
Gagik Tsarukian rallied thousands of supporters in Yerevan on Thursday, urging city residents to defy what he called attempts to intimidate them and to vote for his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) in Sunday’s mayoral elections.
A new opposition alliance led by Raffi Hovannisian criticized some of the other political groups challenging the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the upcoming local elections in Yerevan and ruled out pre-election cooperation with them on Thursday.
Tens of thousands of people marched to a hilltop memorial in Yerevan on Wednesday in an annual remembrance of some 1.5 million Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey during World War I in what many historians consider genocide.
General Nerses Nazarian, the longtime head of Yerevan’s police department, was dismissed on Monday following media reports about his growing disagreements with General Vladimir Gasparian, the national police chief.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian on Monday expressed confidence that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) will retain control of the municipal administration in next month’s elections.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian returned from Moscow on Friday, refusing to disclose important details of what he called a “private and confidential” visit that involved “several good meetings.”
Riot police used force to stop opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian and thousands of his supporters from marching towards the presidential palace in Yerevan on Tuesday at the end of daylong protests against President Serzh Sarkisian’s inauguration for a second term. (UPDATED)
Supporters and opponents of Raffi Hovannisian scuffled in the southeastern Armenian town of Kapan on Monday as the opposition leader held a rally there at the start of a new nationwide campaign of post-election protests.
A top candidate of an opposition bloc set up to contest Yerevan’s upcoming elections says joining a broader anti-fraud coalition will only be meaningful if it undertakes to make ‘real and substantial’ steps rather than engages in another ‘imitation’.
A major opposition party contesting Yerevan’s upcoming municipal vote has again called for broader cooperation among non-government forces to prevent electoral fraud and eventually form new authorities in the Armenian capital.
Holding another rally in Yerevan, opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Friday demanded snap parliamentary elections and other serious government concessions in what he described as his last compromise proposal to President Serzh Sarkisian.
Riot police used force on Thursday to prevent supporters of opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian from pitching a tent at the site of his continuing hunger strike against official results of Armenia’s presidential election.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of a coalition of Europe’s main conservative parties for welcoming President Serzh Sarkisian’s disputed reelection as he continued his hunger strike in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Raffi Hovannisian, the official runner-up in Armenia’s presidential election, sought to keep up pressure on Serzh Sarkisian on Friday, again rallying supporters in Yerevan and demanding the incumbent president’s resignation.
Hundreds of opposition supporters laid flowers at a square in downtown Yerevan on Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of a bloody post-election unrest that left ten people dead and more than 100 others injured.
President Serzh Sarkisian and his main election challenger, Raffi Hovannisian, met behind the closed doors on Thursday to discuss opposition demands for the annulment of the official vote results that gave victory to the incumbent. (UPDATED)
Armenians went to the polls on Monday in a presidential election which was widely expected to give President Serzh Sarkisian a second five-year term in office. (UPDATED)
Campaigning in Armenia’s presidential election officially drew to a close on Saturday, with President Serzh Sarkisian again lavishing praise on his main challengers just one day after accusing them of irresponsible populism.
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