Armenian opposition forces, which are leading the “Homeland Salvation” movement called for a nationwide general strike on December 22, during Wednesday’s protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
“A nationwide strike and a boycott of university classes in Armenia is declared starting from noon on Tuesday,” said Armenian Revolutionary Federation Supreme Council of Armenia Chariman Ishkhan Saghatelyan.
The ARF is one of the parties in a coalition of 16 opposition groups that have been protesting since the November 9 agreement was signed by Pashinyan, which ended the war, but forced the surrender of Armenian territories in Artsakh to Azerbaijan.
Since the agreement has been implemented, several border communities in Armenia proper have seen their security challenged as they have come face to face with Azerbaijani armed forces.
“The whole country must be paralyzed so that this puppet [Pashinyan] resigns as soon as possible,” Saghatelyan told protesters who were marching through Yerevan’s center on Wednesday in was is being dubbed a “March for Dignity.”
He said that Tuesday will be “the most decisive day” of the opposition push to oust Pashinyan and install an interim government tasked with holding fresh parliamentary elections within a year....
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On Wednesday, Pashinyan said in an interview with RFE/RL that it was not up to him to call a snap election and that such a move would have to be agreed with other parliamentary parties.
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“Essentially, nothing has changed all this time,” he said.