Bako Sahakian, the president of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), won a second term in office in an election which his main challenger described on Friday as "free but not fair."
Official results of Thursday's election showed Sahakian garnering 66.7 percent of the vote. Vitali Balasanian, the main opposition candidate and a retired army general, got 32.5 percent, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC) in Stepanakert.
The CEC also said that more than 73 percent of Karabakh's 98,000 or so eligible voters cast their ballots.
Armenia's President Serzh Sarkisian, himself a native and a former military leader of Karabakh, was quick to congratulate Sahakian. "Your convincing victory in the elections reaffirmed the Artsakh people's historical choice and irreversible course towards political freedom, democracy and a society based on national and human values," Sarkisian said in a letter.
Armenian News
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