19 February 2003 (first round) 5 March 2003 (second round)
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Nominee
Robert Kocharyan
Stepan Demirchyan
Party
Independent
People's Party
Popular vote
1,044,591
504,011
Percentage
67.45%
32.55%
President before election
Robert Kocharyan
Elected President
Robert Kocharyan
Politics of Armenia
CIS Member State, CoE Member State
Constitution
Constitutional court
President: Hrayr Tovmasyan
Human rights
Head of state
President
Vahagn Khachaturyan
Executive
Prime Minister
Nikol Pashinyan
Deputy Prime Minister
Tigran Avinyan
Mher Grigoryan
Current government
Legislature
National Assembly
President: Alen Simonyan
Members
Judiciary
Law
Administrative divisions
Provinces (marz)
Municipalities (hamaynk)
Elections
Political parties
Civil Contract
Armenia Alliance
I Have Honor Alliance
Central Electoral Commission
Recent parliamentary elections:
2018
2021
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Foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister: Ararat Mirzoyan
Diplomatic missions of / in Armenia
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Visa requirements
Visa policy
Armenia–BSEC relations
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Armenian genocide recognition
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Presidential elections were held in Armenia on 19 February and 5 March 2003. No candidate received a majority in the first round of the election with the incumbent President Robert Kocharyan winning slightly under 50% of the vote. Therefore, a second round was held and Kocharyan defeated Stepan Demirchyan with official results showed him winning just over 67% of the vote. However, both the opposition and international observers said that the election had seen significant amounts of electoral fraud and the opposition did not recognise the results of the election.
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