Vitaly Balasanyan, who represented Nagorno-Karabakh’s opposition in the recent presidential polls, has managed to garner quite a serious number of votes, an Armenian political analyst has said.

“The opposition managed to unite to the maximum possible degree. The votes of the opposition candidate, Vitaly Balasanyan, are quite serious. That twice exceeds the number of ballots cast in favor the opposition candidate in the previous polls. None of the five political parties backed the opposition figure, although several parliament members did so,” Alexander Iskandaryan, the director of the Caucasus Institute, told a news conference on Friday.

The July 19 presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh saw the country’s incumbent leader leader, Bako Sahakyan, top his challengers with 66.7% of votes. The other contenders, Vitaly Balasanyan and Arkady Soghomonyan, have received 31.4% and 0.9% of votes, respectively.