At noon today, Nikol Pashinyan addressed citizens via his Facebook page, asking them to temporarily cease closing streets in Yerevan.

"Let’s now concentrate all our energy on the exclusion of cars without a license plate or those bearing hidden numbers," Pashinyan said.

Over the past few days, many citizens have complained of cars with covered or no plates at all, violating a number of traffic rules.

Police are nowhere to be seen, and thus Pashinyan urged citizens to self-organize and support this initiative by approaching unlawful drivers and asking them to uncover or reattach their plates.

 “One should not allow some people to take advantage of this situation,” the protest leader wrote.

Pashinyan reminded people about the planned rally today at 19:00 in Republic Square.

"Everything is fine. Thank you all. I am proud of you because you are powerful,” he said.

Note to Readers: Serzh Sargsyan resigned as Armenian prime minister on April 23, after eleven days of public protests and civil disobedience. Hundreds were detained, and several protest leaders were arrested. All were later released after Sargsyan’s resignation. Nikol Pashinyan, who at first called for Sargsyan’s resignation, then upped the ante, calling for a transfer of power to the people. He demanded that a “people’s candidate” be elected prime minister. Scheduled talks between Acting Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan and Pashinyan broke down. Karapetyan then called on President Armen Sarkissian to broker talks with various political forces in the country on the political impasse. This idea appears dead in the water, as some have rejected Sarkissian’s invitation outright. The contentious issue of the day revolves around the holding of snap parliamentary elections. Pashinyan says he favors the idea but only after the “capitulation” of the Republican Party of Armenia, which now has a parliamentary majority.