Monday, November 28, 2005

Low Voter Turnout on Referendum

OPPOSITION SAYS ONLY 16.3 PERCENT OF VOTERS TOOK PART IN REFERENDUM

Armenpress

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS:
The Armenian opposition continued today its rally around the Opera House but people there were not as much as they had expected.

The head of the "Hanrapetutyun" ("Republic") party Aram Sargsian stated that the united opposition will organize a new rally on November 28 near the Matenadaran for which they have already got permission. The member of the "Hanrapetutyun" party's political council Suren Sureniants said that 8,000 observers from opposition followed the pace of the referendum.

After the rally the members of the opposition gave a joint press conference presenting the facts they registered during the referendum.

According to that facts, only 374,667 people participated in the referendum which is only 16.3 percent of the voters.

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