Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh will go to the polls on July 19 in a presidential election which is shaping up as a two-horse race between the disputed territory's current president and a retired army general who played a major role in the war with Azerbaijan.
The incumbent, Bako Sahakian, and General Vitali Balasanian, a former deputy commander of the Karabakh Armenian army, were formally registered as presidential candidates along with two other, less known individuals on Friday.
Sahakian's reelection bid is backed by the three political parties represented in the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's government and parliament.
One of them, the local branch of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), has endorsed Sahakian despite the fact that Balasanian is a non-partisan member of its parliamentary faction. Balasanian has criticized the move and claimed that most Dashnaktsutyun members in Karabakh support his candidacy.
Armenian News
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