Sargsyan warm to meet defeated Armenian presidential candidate

Re-elected President of Armenia Serzh Sarsgyan accepted the offer of the leader of the Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisyan to meet, made yesterday at a press conference in Liberty Square in Yerevan, the president's press secretary Armen Arzumanyan told Panorama.am.

"The president is ready to receive Hovannisian at a convenient time, especially since there is a need to clarify rather obscure wording from Mr Hovannisian concerning the purpose of the meeting," Arzumanyan said.

Presidential elections were held in Armenia on Feb.18. The incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan won the presidential elections scoring 58.64 per cent of the votes. First Foreign Minister of Armenia Raffi Hovannisian ranked second scoring 36.75 per cent, while former Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan ranked third scoring 2.15 per cent.


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