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Pashinyan Calls for General Strike; Vows to Continue Popular Movement

by Asbarez Staff
May 1, 2018
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A sea of people on Republic Square who gathered from the early morning hours anticipating Nikol Pashinyan's election as prime minister. Parliament failed to come through
A sea of people on Republic Square who gathered from the early morning hours anticipating Nikol Pashinyan’s election as prime minister. Parliament failed to come through

YEREVAN—Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of the popular movement that for almost three weeks has been demanding change called for a general strike on Wednesday and vowed to continue protests across Armenia, after the National Assembly on Tuesday failed to elect him as prime minister.

After the parliament session, which lasted about nine hours on Tuesday, Pashinyan headed to Yerevan’s Republic Square where he told a sea of thousands of supporters, who had gathered there since as early as 8 a.m. local time, and urged them to continue the peaceful protests that have been sweeping the country and resulted in the resignation of former prime minister Serzh Sarkisian last week prompting Tuesday’s extraordinary session to elect a new prime minister.

“Our counter-move against the action of the Republican faction will be very rapid. Tomorrow we will declare a general strike. We will block all the streets, communications, subways, train stations and the airports beginning at 8:15 in the morning,” Pashinyan, who was the only candidate for the premiership, told supporters after the parliamentary vote. “Our struggle cannot end in a failure.” He also called on students to boycott classes and continue their participation in the movement.

The late night rally capped a dramatic day in parliament, which had convened to elect him as prime minister. One by one Republican Party of Armenia members took to the parliament floor to declare their no confidence in Pashinyan citing mainly Russia-centric matters among them Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organization, about both of which Pashinyan has expressed his opposition in the past.

“They [the Republican Party of Armenia] wanted the people and the candidate of the people would panic, take provocative actions and organize attacks. But we are not engaged in acts of robbing ghosts. They may only be referring to the “political funeral” of the RPA,” Pashinyan told supporters on Tuesday.

In the end with businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s alliance’s 29 votes, the Yelk factions nine votes and six votes from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Psshinyan received only 45 of the 53 votes needed to secure the prime ministership. The Republican Party of Armenia announced that its lawmakers would not support his candidacy. Only one Republican member, Feliks Tsolakyan broke ranks with his party and voted for him.

On the other end of the spectrum, head of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation parliamentary faction, Aghvan Vardanyan, broke ranks with his party and announced from the dais that he would not support Pashinyan’s candidacy, prompting the ARF Supreme Council of Armenia to call for his immediate resignation from the parliament. Vardanyan did not take part in the vote.

Two members of the Tsarukian alliance did not attend the parliament session, with one Republican Party of Armenia member, Grigor Avalyan, announcing his resignation from parliament ahead of Tuesday’s session.

The National Assembly has seven days to convene another vote, which by all estimation will take place on Tuesday. If on that day the legislature fails to elect a prime minister, the parliament would have to organize snap parliamentary elections, under the Republican Party of Armenia’s leadership.

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Comments 7

  1. State of Emergency says:
    4 years ago

    The ARF is in complete disarray. Their initial mistake is now taking on a snowball effect. Internal strife will eventual erode their stance in the country. Eventually, they will end up like the Ramgavar party who’s only followers and constituency can be found in the diaspora. Until and unless the ARF comes clean to express gross incompetence in having created this crisis, this political vacuum will ultimately consume them.

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  2. Masis says:
    4 years ago

    Before it dies, the snake spurts out its final venom. This Republican party really wants to go down in history as the enemy of the people.

    Reply
  3. Raffi says:
    4 years ago

    Rule of law should be respected., not even Pashinyan should be above the law.

    Reply
  4. Abraham says:
    4 years ago

    Threats, bulling and paralysing the country may not be the best options!! Maybe another acceptable candidate by both parties from Mr Pashinyan’s party could be the answer!

    Reply
  5. Josef says:
    4 years ago

    Revolution and chaos, good news for Turks and Azeris. Karen Karapetyan would be the best, good manager with good results.

    Reply
  6. HERAYER says:
    4 years ago

    THE MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED THE ARMENIAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN AND HAVE PROVEN THAT THEY CAN RULE IN A DEMOCRATIC WAY AND WITH JUSTICE FOR ALL NOT ONLY FOR THE FEW, THIS IS THE GREATEST EXAMPLE OF ARMENIAN UNITY. WE ARMENIANS ALL OVER ARE DELIGHTED TO SEE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAPPY AND CELEBRATING THEIR FREEDOM. THIS WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE RENAISSANCE OF OUR BELOVED ARMENIA. I AM SO PROUD OF MY ARMENIAN PEOPLE. GETSAY-HYASTAN

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  7. Vagharshak Sevulyan says:
    4 years ago

    We must cautioned that during this diffucult time azeris would take opportunity attack Armenia and Artsakh. be strong militarly.

    Reply

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