R. Hovannisian: Citizens’ participation will defeat falsification

We will be able to defeat falsification and injustice only in case of active participation of citizens in the election, the presidential candidate Raffi Hovannisian stated today, when campaigning in Kentron community of Yerevan.

Commenting on the talk that this election is uncompetitive, Raffi Hovannisian said:
“This is going to be the most competitive election because at its conclusion we will have a new Armenia, a new situation. This will be a new state of Armenian citizens, rather than a new state of Raffi,” he said.

If the incumbent president wins the election, Hovannisian will shake his hand only in one case:
“I will shake his hand only if the election has been free and independent. In this case I will shake hands with the only de jure elected president in the 20-year history of independent Armenia,” Raffi Hovannisian noted, adding that, nevertheless, he himself is more likely to accept congratulations.