After a constitutionally-imposed “day of rest” in campaigning, voting polls across Armenia opened this morning to determine who will serve as the country’s fifth president.

The weekend saw both oppositionist Levon Ter-Petrosyan and ruling party leader Serge Sargsyan draw impressive crowds that marched from Liberty Square to Republic Square turning major thoroughfares into parade grounds. Though party estimates dramatically inflated turnout, a rough calculation by ArmeniaNow using a grid method of counting estimated the crowds at about 40,000 each.