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Artsakh11:18, 15 April 2020

Arayik Harutyunyan scores landslide victory in Artsakh presidential runoff

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Arayik Harutyunyan scores landslide victory in Artsakh presidential runoff

YEREVAN, APRIL 15, ARMENPRESS. Former prime minister and former state minister Arayik Harutyunyan has scored a landslide victory in the second round of the Artsakh presidential election, according to preliminary results.

Artsakh’s electoral board announced that Harutyunyan, the head of the Free Fatherland Party, garnered 88%, or 39860 votes.

The turnover was 45% (47165 voters).

Harutyunyan’s rival, the incumbent foreign minister Masis Mayilyan, garnered only 12% of votes.

Reporting, writing by Norayr Shoghikyan

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

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