The ARF in Armenia has called on all parliamentary factions to meet before the National Assembly is set to elect a new prime minister for the country on May 1 and formulate a “united political agenda and agree upon a candidate enjoying the confidence of the people”.
Aram Araratyan, Karapetyan’s press secretary, posted on his Facebook page that the acting prime minister failed to show because Pashinyan was still setting the ground rules.
The news was reported by Arsen Hambardzumyan, a representative of the ARF-Armenia Supreme Council.
Pashinyan says Sarkissian brought documents with him showing that he stopped being a British citizen in December 2011.
At this evening’s rally in Republic Square, leaders of Armenia’s “Velvet Revolution” reaffirmed their goal – to hold parliamentary elections after Nikol Pashinyan is elected prime minister.
Safaryan says that representatives from some ten area villages are forming a joint council to keep protest momentum going.
They had done so earlier today as well, but heeding the call of anti-government protest leader Nikol Pashinyan, they temporarily opened the artery, one of the two linking Armenia to Artsakh.
Serzh Sargsyan resigned on April 23. Talks between Pashinyan and Karen Karapetyan, the country’s acting prime minister, have broken down, leaving Armenia in something of a political impasse.
"Let’s now concentrate all our energy on the exclusion of cars without a license plate or those bearing hidden numbers," Pashinyan said.