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About 10 thousand people were participating in presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrossian’s gathering at the Freedom Square in Yerevan.

The gathering was being run by Haykakan Zhamanak daily editor Nikol Pashinyan.

“Have you seen Serzh Sargsyan’s electoral video?” Pashinyan asked, telling that, according that video, the goal of the Armenian football team, the performance of Arevik children’s band at Kids’ Eurovision was the Armenian prime minister Serzh Sargsyan’s “work.” “With this logic, October 27, the homicides of Khorkhoruni, Artsrun Margaryan, and

Shahen Hovasapyan are his “work,” too… Price increasing, plunder are his “work,” Nikol Pashinyan concluded.

The weather was cold, and Nikol Pashinyan addressed the gathered people, “Is there someone who is cold?” Getting the answer no, the editor of Haykakan Zhamanak said, “And there are people who are cold at the Republic square and Baghramyan Avenue.”

APP chairman Stepan Demirchyan announced that they agreed with Robert Kocharyan, and they “are going to win in the first round.”

Aram Z. Sargsyan expressed gratitude for “gathering to listen to us” in cold weather, stating, “I am convinced that you are going to vote in favor of Levon Ter-Petrossian on February 19.”

“A small thing is left for us – to be worthy of having such president,” Sargsyan concluded his speech.

“Perhaps, the biggest one among my numerous mistakes is the one that I resigned on February 3, 1998, as a result of which the elections started coinciding with such a cold weather,” Levon Ter-Petrossian stated, informing that “he was going to speak briefly in order to make amends for my fault.”

A significant part of Levon Ter-Petrossian’s speech consisted of the poem Death of Vision that the first president recited up to the last lines May no sacrifice be needed apart from me/May no other shadows approach the gallows.

The first president announced that on February 19 voters would be able to heal the deep insult for the presidential elections in 1998 and 2003. “On February 19, it will be not only my victory but also the victory of Karen Demirchyan, Stepan Demirchyan and Vazgen Sargsyan,” he said.

At the end of the gathering Nikol Pashinyan announced that they were going to conduct a rally headed by Levon Ter-Petrossian in the streets of Yerevan. The participants of the rally marched down Mashtots Avenue, entered the Republic Square, returning to the Freedom Square through Nalbandyan Street.

The number of the gathered people had not decreased in the Freedom Square after the rally. People were chanting the words Le-von and Vic-to-ry.

“This was already a celebration, a victory. This force cannot be stopped… Thanks everybody and good night,” that’s how Levon Ter-Petrossian concluded the meeting and the rally.