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                   Armenian President Set to Win Re-Election

   Exit polls say Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is set to be
   re-elected to a second term in office.
   Polls show the incumbent leader received nearly 60 percent of Monday`s
   vote. His nearest rival, former foreign minister Raffi Hovannisian,
   trailed with just over 30 percent.
   Mr. Sargsyan`s expected victory would give another five years to the
   already 13-year rule of his Republican Party in the small Caucasus
   nation.
   In a rarity for the former Soviet republics, Armenia was having a
   genuine multi-party contest. The race, however, has been rocky for the
   landlocked nation of about 3 million people.
   Of the eight original candidates, one dropped out, a second refused to
   vote, a third also refused to vote and went on a hunger strike, a
   fourth was shot and wounded in an apparent assassination attempt, and a
   fifth feared arrest after Monday`s vote because he knew the suspected
   shooter.
   Of the last remaining candidates, two were charging fraud even before
   the first ballot was cast.
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