19:56, 24 April 2018

Nikol Pashinyan announces his Premiership ambitions

Nikol Pashinyan. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the Caucasian Knot

Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of the opposition, says it is highly probable that he would take the post of Prime Minister of Armenia, vacant after Serzh Sargsyan's resignation.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 23, Serzh Sargsyan, a former President, who had been elected by the MPs to the post of Prime Minister only six days before, announced his resignation. He explained that he was fulfilling the opposition's demand.

Nikol Pashinyan is an Armenian journalist and politician, an Armenian MP since 2012. After mass protests against the outcomes of March 2008 presidential election and the violent dispersal of peaceful oppositional rallies, in which 10 people perished, and several hundred were injured, Pashinyan went underground for a year. He was put on the wanted list and subsequently convicted.

Nikol Pashinyan has stated that he is ready to become Armenia's Premier, if the people "put responsibility on him." In his opinion, 90% of voters will support him, and there is "a good chance that this will happen," the RIA "Novosti" quotes Pashinyan's statement at a briefing in Yerevan.

Nikol Pashinyan has reiterated that people's nominee should become the Premier; and the Republican Party of Armenia should no longer have power in the country.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.