Agence France-Presse calls sarkisian a winner
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian won Armenia’s presidential election in a first round Tuesday with 57.1 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll commissioned by Armenian Public Television.
The leading opposition candidate, former president Levon Ter-Petrosian, came in second place with 17.4 percent while Artur Baghdasarian came in third with 14.6 percent, according to the poll.
Even before polls closed, Ter-Petrosian’s campaign team decried the vote as a fraud and called for a mass rally in Yerevan on Wednesday.
