On 1 May, a special session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia did not result in the election of a new Prime Minister.
Armenian National Assembly was scheduled to start a regular four-day sittings today, but only 29 deputies have been registered - 28 from the ruling RPA party, and Vahe Enfiajyan, secretary of Tsarukyan faction.
Students have gone on strike at Yerevan’s the Khachatur Abovyan State Pedagogical University in Yerevan to protest yesterday’s National Assembly election rejecting Nikol Pashinyan’s candidacy for prime minister.
Yesterday evening, after elections in the Armenian National Assembly, Pashinyan called on the people to ramp up their civil disobedience by blocking all roads, public transportation and the Zvartnots Airport.
Lawyer Nikolay Baghdasaryan told Hetq that this was to protest the fact that Republican Party of Armenia MPs did not hear the people's voice and voted against Nikol Pashinyan.
Protesters used cars to bloc Yerevan’s Kievyan Bridge to traffic, thus heeding the call made by Nikol Pashinyan yesterday to ramp up civil disobedience after the National Assembly failed to elect him prime minister.
Teachers and students walked out of classes today in Etchmiadzin to protest yesterday’s National Assembly vote to reject Nikol Pashinyan’s bid to become the country’s next prime minister
After the National Assembly voted 56-45 not to elect him prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan made his way to Yerevan’s Republic Square where tens of thousands of his supporters were following the confirmation hearing live, on large outdoor screens.
At today’s special parliamentary session slated to hold a vote electing Armenia’s next prime minister, Republic Party President Aram Sargsyan, a Yelk Faction MP, scolded his colleagues for speaking about everything under the sun except the country’s current political crisis.