Decision 2013: Hovannisian tours regions as part of his BAREVolution campaign

Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian, who is disputing President Serzh Sargsyan's official reelection, made a five-stop tour of provinces on Saturday visiting major towns and areas where he garnered considerable support in the Monday ballot.

In Ashtarak, Vanadzor and Gyumri Hovannisian and his team held public rallies attracting thousands of local people, urging them to come to Yerevan on Sunday for a big gathering in Liberty Square to push for a power change.

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Hovannisian, who believes himself to be the rightful winner of the presidential election despite his officially announced preliminary score of close to 37 percent as opposed to Sargsyan's count of about 59 percent, said on Friday that all of his offers of compromise, including a repeat election and snap parliamentary polls, had been rejected by the incumbent president.  Read more... (371 words, 2 images)

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