Opposition stages multiple campaigns to demand Pashinyan's resignation

PanARMENIAN.Net - Participants of an initiative called the Resistance Movement have started marching from the village of Tigranashen to Yerevan on Tuesday, April 26. Lawmaker from the opposition Armenia bloc Anna Grigoryan is participating in the campaign too, Pastinfo reports.

Tigranashen is an Armenian village in the province of Ararat which used to be an Azerbaijani enclave for a short period of time during the Soviet era.

The movement staged similar campaigns on Monday as well, when protesters began marching from the town of Ijevan to the capital, Yerevan.

Also Tuesday, members of the Republican Party of Armenia blocked the Komitas Avenue near the center of the city to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The demonstrators later opened the street and blocked the Victory bridge in downtown Yerevan.

Members of Homeland party, meanwhile, blocked several streets in the heart of the city to stage a motorcycle campaign. Police were urging the participants of the campaign to abandon the driveway. Party representative Arsen Babayan cited preliminary information to reveal that three people had been detained, Panorama.am reports.