Resistance Movement to resume anti-Pashinyan protests on September 2

YEREVAN, August 23. /ARKA/. Armenia’s opposition will resume the Resistance Movement on September 2 in another bid to make Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his government resign, former deputy parliament speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan, one of the leaders of the Movement, said at a rally organized today by a former chief of staff of the Constitutional Court Edgar Ghazaryan in Republic Square.

"The Resistance Movement's rally is scheduled for September 2 and the Movement, pursuing all its declared goals, will continue the struggle in full force," Saghatelyan said. He noted that rallies will also be held in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and in the Diaspora.

Earlier, Saghatelyan said in an interview with several Armenian TV channels that the Movement will begin the process of impeaching the Prime Minister only when there are sufficient grounds for success.

"There are two ways to remove these authorities: resignation and removal from office through parliament. Either of these two options will only succeed through a broad popular uprising," he said.

Saghatelyan was dismissed as vice speaker of the National Assembly in early July. The formal reason behind his dismissal was his absence from more than half of the sittings of the National Assembly. -0-