YEREVAN
Reporting by Halit Gulsen
Official results of the presidential election in Armenia will be announced on February 25.
Armenian Central Electoral Board stated that so far only one percent of votes was counted, and according to these results Armenia's incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan received the highest vote with 77.22 percent.
Sargsyan was followed by former foreign minister Raffi Hovannisian with 19 percent, added the board.
The board noted that the participation rate in the election was 60 percent.
The leader of the Union for National Self-Determination Party Raffi Hovannisian, the leader of Freedom Party and former Prime Minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan, so-called Nagorno Karabakh administration's former foreign minister Arman Melikyan, leader of the Union for National Self-Determination Paruyr Hayrikyan, political analyst Andrias Ghukasyan, epic poetry expert Vardan Sedrakyan and the incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan competed in the presidential election.
Armenian deputy: presidential election held in a peaceful atmosphere
Armenian Republican Party deputy David Harutyunian also said that presidential election was held in a peaceful atmosphere.
Harutyunian told AA team, which is covering the elections in Yerevan, that they should wait for a little bit more to have the certain results.
