February 20, 2003 - 17:13 AMT
OPPOSITION CANDIDATES HOLDING A MEETING IN YEREVAN
In Yerevan the opposition parties representatives meeting is going to take place at 2:00 today. As was informed by Ruzanna Khachatrian, the press secretary of opposition headquarters, the meeting is organized concerning many breaches, which, in opinion of the opposition, took place in the Armenian President elections. R. Khachatrian marked, that in particular the president candidates Stepan Demirchian, the leader of People's Party of Armenia, and Aram Karapetian, the chairman of the center of strategic initiatives "Perspectiva", are going to participate in the meeting. According to the provisional data of the Central Election Committee, by 8:00 on local time this morning the president candidate Robert Kocharian, the acting head of the country is in the lead. The 51% of the electors voted for him.