The ARF says its decision to join Pashinyan’s government of national agreement was based on its sincere desire to take the country to a new level of development without unnecessary shocks.
The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), in a statement released today, says it has not entered into any agreement with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan regarding holding snap parliamentary elections.
Heeding the call of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, thousands of irate citizens converged on the grounds of the National Assembly in Yerevan last night to voice their opposition to a controversial bill that would make it more difficult for Pashinyan to disband the legislature and call new elections.
Any changes should fully respect Venice Commission guidelines, including as regards the stability of the electoral legislation, and be based on as broad as possible a consensus between all political forces,” said Ms Lovochkina. She emphasised that the need for sufficient time for proper consultation and consensus-building were even more important in the context of any possible constitutional changes, which should not be considered hastily.
A second Carrefour hypermarket opened today in Yerevan on Tigran Metz Avenue.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has ordered that the park on the grounds of the National Assembly in Yerevan be opened to civilians every day from 10am-8pm.
Pavel Manukyan and Armen Bilyan, two members of the Sasna Tzrer group on trial for seizing a Yerevan police building in 2016, have declared a hunger strike.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender’s Office is calling on all those participating in protests taking place in the country to show maximum tolerance and to refrain from all forms of violence.
Pashinyan decided to dismiss the ministers after yesterday’s vote of a bill, introduced by the Republican Party of Armenia and backed by Prosperous Armenia and the ARF, that is seen as a ploy for the current parliament to remain in power.
Thousands of demonstrators earlier this evening gathered outside the National Assembly, at the urging of Pashinyan, to protest today’s parliamentary approval of a controversial bill seen by Pashinyan as an attempt by the Republican Party of Armenia to regain power.
Hetq has been informed that protests against yesterday’s approved bill to alter the parliament’s rules of procedure have broken out in towns across Armenia.
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