Anti-Serzh Sargsyan protesters have marched to the Yerevan Municipal Building and are calling on Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan to come out and join them.
Rubik Vagharshakyan, one of the villagers, participated in the 1990s Artsakh War. He says that today's authorities are comfortably sitting in their chairs at the expense of people like himself.
Scores of young people from the towns of Armavir and Metsamor set off for Yerevan this morning to join the anti-Serzh Sargsyan protests taking place in the Armenian capital.
At a rally yesterday evening in Republic Square, Yelk Alliance MP Nikol Pashinyan called on citizens to paralyze the workings of the government.
A Hetq reporter on the scene says that police and men in civilian dress are dispersing anti-Serzh Sargsyan protesters gathered in France Square and are loading some into nearby buses.
Thousands packed Yerevan’s Republic Square yesterday evening to hear Nikol Pashinyan and others talk about the protests, originally launched to prevent Serzh Sargsyan from Armenia’s new prime minister, but which have morphed into a movement designed to paralyze the normal functioning of the government.
Earlier today, Khanjian had sent an open letter on her Facebook page urging Sargsyan to do the right thing and retire from politics.
While Armenia’s National Assembly voted to elect Serzh Sargsyan as the country’s next prime minister, protesters continued to close off streets in downtown Yerevan and elsewhere.
Armenia’s National Assembly has elected Serzh Sargsyan the country’s new prime minister by a vote of 77 to 17.