Candidate for president of Armenia to protest in Yerevan

Paruyr Ayrikyan, a candidate for president of Armenia shot in a shoulder on January 31, has urged people to rally for the final protests at the Freedom Square in Yerevan on February 16, Tert.am reports.

Ayrikyan refused to postpone the elections, despite his wound. He said that he would not want Andreas Gukasyan, a candidate for president on hunger strike, to suffer two more weeks of the strike.

Armenia will have the sixth presidential polls on February 18.

7 candidates are running for president: President Serzh Sargsyan, former PM and leader of the Freedom Party Grant Bagratyan, former Foreign Minister and leader of the Heritage Party Raffi Ovannisyan, leader of the National Self-Determination Union Paruyr Ayrikyan, former Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Arman Melikyan, a political analyst of Radio Hay Andreas Gukasyan and a researcher of epos Vardan.