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First day after the State of Emergency, and as it was expected, lots of people crowded the central streets of Yerevan. The silent protest with people standing in a line did not really happen, but you could see some people line up at different spots of streets. Many of the participants found their own ways of expression.
It was interesting that most of the active participants were women. Some of them quiet, others occasionally shouting at the policemen and being pretty angry in general. About ten times I was asked whether I was from Haylur of the Public TV and then kicked away because “there’s no use of the photographs, as you are not showing them to anyone”.
Young people were active and seemed to be actually the ones who were trying to begin and keep the row of people.
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The women stepped out yesterday during Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s rally to express their discontent about Haylur of the Public TV. They marched towards the Haylur premises chanting “Levon, Levon!”.
As I came home in the evening Haylur did show Ter-Petrosyan’s rally but called the Freedom Square a “Theatrical Square” and showed only awkward moments of the rally speeches.
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Things are really getting pretty strange around Levon Ter-Petrosyan, what with deputy Prosecutor-General Gagik Jhangiryan, Head of the Heritage Party Raffi Hovhannisyan and several other officials joining him.
The sit-in continued today, and I will hopefully photograph it in the morning and post. They say that probably it will go on for another day or two. You can still find almost nothing about this and the rallies on TV, and all the news comes from independent agencies and websites. There’s also Gala from the second city Gyumri, and I can’t watch it in Yerevan. Did I miss anything? If not those sources, people would find out about things only by going to the rallies, like in the old times, which would increase the amount of people.
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According to the Central Electoral Commission, Serzh Sargsyan has won the presidential election with 52 per cent. Levon Ter-Petrosyan was the second.
The rally organized by Ter-Petrosyan and the opposition leaders supporting him gathered a huge crowd once again, the number being around 30,000 if not more. Levon Ter-Petrosyan found the election “normal” and “outrageous”. After the rally the people marched around the centre and came to the Freedom Square for the second part of the rally.
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The presidential election in Armenia ended an hour ago. Haylur of the Public TV reports that 69 per cent of the electorate in Armenia have participated in the election, and 69 per cent of Yerevan’s eligible voters have participated.
Haylur also reports the results of the exit poll of the British Populus company. According to this poll Serzh Sargsyan has 57.1 per cent of votes, Levon Ter-Petrosyan has 17.4 per cent, 14.6 per cent voted for Artur Baghdasaryan, and 5.9 per cent for Vahan Hovhannisyan.
On the other hand, A1+ reports that Levon Ter-petrosyan is in the lead. According to the exit poll of a “Alfa-GA” Company, Levon Ter-petrosyan has 54.2 per cent of votes, Serzh Sargsyan has 24.4 per cent, Vahan Hovhannisyan 8.4 per cent, and Artur Baghdasaryan has 8.2 per cent.
Sorry for all these numbers, but they looked all too different not to write. Below are some photos of the election process in Yerevan.
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While in Gyumri this week, I passed by the theatre in the centre, where Levon Ter-Petrosyan was holding a rally on 10 Feb. The rally gathered a lot of people here too, filling up the whole square.
On the next day while in the theatre I took a shot of a meeting of the Georgian-Armenian Union (last photo), in support of Serzh Sargsyan.
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Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s rally on 9 Feb gathered a lot more people on Freedom Square this time than it usually did. This was the first time I saw people sitting on the head of Tumanyan’s monument. Ter-Petrosyan had promised some surprises during his rally, and as I came late I suppose this was concerning the Karabakh land. Right now it is probably too early and I cannot find a report on his speech. The crowd marched around Yerevan’s central streets after the rally and returned once again to the Square.
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Presidential candidate Vahan Hovhannisyan of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation- Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D), was also among the candidates to gather a rally on Freedom Square. Hovhannisyan’s speech on 8 Feb was short and concrete, and the rally was the most colorful of all.
What is always peculiar about ARF-D is the number of young Dashnaks, and another thing was that the rally was well organized and easy going. There were no body-guards pushing you away from the stage. Before the rally began Hovhannisyan was walking freely around the Square and even made sure to walk into a nearby café to invite people to the rally.
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I’ve been taking some photos of the posters of the presidential candidates around the town these days and want to share them. I’ve got here Serzh Sargsyan’s posters, which are on nearly every store in town. Then Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s poster, torn in this artsy manner, and the last and my favorite, Vahan Hovhannisyan’s posters, saying “We drink only Mango!”.
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It turns into an obsession for me to cover Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s rallies, but this time it was an unpleasant one, too cold, although warmer than it’s been these days. Probably that’s why there were mostly men there, and much less of the little old ladies that seemed to be half of the supporters during previous rallies. The number of people was pretty much the same as before, but before almost all the people were from Yerevan, and this time most of them came from regions.
Continue reading ‘Second day of presidential campaign, Ter-Petrosyan’s rally’
