Armenian opposition lawmakers burn flares at parliament session
11.04.2018,
13:26
YELQ opposition faction MPs burnt flares at today’s session of the National Assembly of Armenia.
YEREVAN, April 11. /ARKA/. YELQ opposition faction MPs burnt flares at today’s session of the National Assembly of Armenia.
Ararat Mirzoyan, an opposition lawmaker, was booked for speaking, but instead of delivering a speech he fired a flare and called on the country’s population to attend the rally to be staged on April 13 in Yerevan’s Liberty Square against Serzh Sargsyan’s nomination for the prime-ministerial post.
“Time has come to prevent the third term of Serzh Sargsyan’s rule and the governance of the Republican Party of Armenia and to form the Armenia we dream of,” he said. “To achieve that, it is necessary to come to the Liberty Square on April 13, where we together will burn our torch of freedom.”
Lena Nazaryan, another member of the opposition faction, joined Ararat Mirzoyan and fired her flares.
Eduard Sharmazanov, an Armenian Republicans’ man and vice speaker at the parliament, reacting to this step, said that the show has failed, since only 10 MPs were present at the session.
On March 31, Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of the Civil Contract party, which is a part of YELQ opposition bloc, launched a protest campaign in response to Serzh Sargsyan’s ambition to take up the rule for the third term.
Nikol Pashinyan began the march from Gyumri, Armenia’s second biggest city. Pashinyan and his teammates are now touring the country’s cities and villages urging their residents to join the protest campaign and to attend the rally in Liberty Square in Yerevan on March 13 at 18:00 local time and other political processes in a bid to rid the country of Serzh Sargsyan and Armenian Republicans’ rule. --0---
Ararat Mirzoyan, an opposition lawmaker, was booked for speaking, but instead of delivering a speech he fired a flare and called on the country’s population to attend the rally to be staged on April 13 in Yerevan’s Liberty Square against Serzh Sargsyan’s nomination for the prime-ministerial post.
“Time has come to prevent the third term of Serzh Sargsyan’s rule and the governance of the Republican Party of Armenia and to form the Armenia we dream of,” he said. “To achieve that, it is necessary to come to the Liberty Square on April 13, where we together will burn our torch of freedom.”
Lena Nazaryan, another member of the opposition faction, joined Ararat Mirzoyan and fired her flares.
Eduard Sharmazanov, an Armenian Republicans’ man and vice speaker at the parliament, reacting to this step, said that the show has failed, since only 10 MPs were present at the session.
On March 31, Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of the Civil Contract party, which is a part of YELQ opposition bloc, launched a protest campaign in response to Serzh Sargsyan’s ambition to take up the rule for the third term.
Nikol Pashinyan began the march from Gyumri, Armenia’s second biggest city. Pashinyan and his teammates are now touring the country’s cities and villages urging their residents to join the protest campaign and to attend the rally in Liberty Square in Yerevan on March 13 at 18:00 local time and other political processes in a bid to rid the country of Serzh Sargsyan and Armenian Republicans’ rule. --0---
