Anri Jergenia - 2004 Presidential Elections

2004 Presidential Elections

Already during the 2002 Parliamentary elections, while still Prime Minister, Jergenia had supported the parliamentary candidates of public movement Amtsakhara. In 2003, he spoke at Amtsakhara's congress, where he argued in favour of reducing Presidential powers and moving towards a mixed presidential/parliamentary model of government. Jergenia then became Amtsakhara's favoured candidate for the October 2004 presidential elections before it entered into an alliance with United Abkhazia and chose to back Sergei Bagapsh instead. A minority faction of Amtsakhara continued its support for Jergenia, and he did enter into the elections, with Ruslan Kishmaria as his Vice-Presidential candidate, head of the Gali district assembly. The pair came in only fourth place in the first round, receiving 2277 votes, and did not contest the second.


e • d Summary of the 3 October 2004 Abkhazian presidential election results
Presidential candidate Vice presidential candidate votes %
Sergei Bagapsh Stanislav Lakoba 43,336 50.08
Raul Khadjimba Vitali Smyr 30,815 35.61
Sergei Shamba Vladimir Arshba 5,993 6.93
Anri Jergenia Ruslan Kishmaria 2,277 2.63
Iakub Lakoba Fatima Kvitsinia 806 0.93
Against all 1,230 1.42
Invalid 2404 2.78
Total amount of votes cast 86,525 100.00
Turnout 86,525 62.90
Abstention 51,039 37.10
Total number of registered voters 137,564 100.00
Source: Протокол N 11 Центральной избирательной комиссии по выборам Президента Республики Абхазия от 11 октября 2004 г.

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