
The Armenian opposition, which is holding protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, began to leave the square in front of the National Assembly of the Republic on Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan, RBC correspondent reports.
Earlier, the protesters started marching towards the Armenian Parliament from France Square, which is located about 800 meters from the National Assembly. Opposition leaders, representatives of the "Armenia" faction Ishkhan Saghatelyan and "I have the honor" Artur Vanetsyan said that the marchers have no goal of seizing the parliament and they will not go for provocations. The Novosti-Armenia agency reported that clashes with police began in the crowd surrounding the parliament building.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was in the National Assembly during the procession. There, he stated that Armenia would retain the "brand" of democracy, but warned that "this does not mean that there are no lines behind which democracy operates in full force and with all the rigor of its legal, legitimate, constitutional mechanisms." He also noted that now the opposition is acting in exactly the same way as his political force acted when it came to power in 2018.
Participants of the opposition rally in Yerevan went to the parliament building Politics
Earlier on May 4, a group of protesters blocked the Kyiv bridge in Yerevan with concrete mixers. As Sputnik Armenia pointed out, the police tried to unblock the road, but the cars turned out to be closed, and their owners left the bridge. There were arrests.
Opposition rallies in the country have been going on since mid-April. On May 1, Saghatelyan said that they would develop into "large-scale actions of civil disobedience." He called on citizens to go on strike and block roads.
The protesters accused Pashinyan of intending to “surrender” Nagorno-Karabakh after the prime minister announced the need to “lower the bar of expectations” on the status of the region. Pashinyan denied these accusations.
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