Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan has been officially announced as the Armenian president-elect, according to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) on Sunday.
According to the commission, Sargsyan gained 52.82 percent of votes in the Feb. 19 election, Russian news agencies reported.
The second and third places were opposition leader, the country's first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan who won 21.5 percent and opposition leader and former Parliament Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan who won 17.7 percent.
Ter-Petrosyan expressed distrust of the election's preliminary results and called a rally to protest after the result was announced by the CEC on Feb. 20. Supporters of Ter-Petrosyan has been protesting at the Liberty Square since then.
International election observers said the ballot mostly met democratic norms. They noted certain shortcomings but said they did not have an effect on the election outcome.
The president-elect will be inaugurated on April 9, the day when the office of incumbent President Robert Kocharian ends.
Source: Xinhua
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