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Armenian PM Sargsyan resigns after week of mass protests
The Egyptian Gazette Published in The Egyptian Gazette on 23 - 04 - 2018

YEREVAN, April 23, 2018 - Pressured by mass protests in the capital, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan has resigned from office. This apparently seals a victory for opposition forces behind the protest.
Demonstrations against Sargsyan, who served as president for a decade before being elected to his new office by the parliament last week, erupted on April 13.
As the vote in the parliament was looming, several opposition MPs organized rallies against Sargsyan, accusing him of usurping the power in the country.
The leaders of the protest, MPs Nikol Pashinyan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Sasun Mikaelyan, were arrested on Sunday amid a police crackdown on a rally disrupting traffic in the capital Yerevan.
Before that the prime minister met with Pashinyan, but the encounter lasted for only a few minutes and practically amounted to the opposition leader's demanding for the PM's resignation.
The government threatened to strip the trio from their legal immunity and prosecute, but made a U-turn on Monday.
"I am addressing to you as the leader of the state for the last time. Nikol Pashinyan was right and I was wrong. There are several possible decisions in this situation, but I won't take those," Sargsyan said in an address to the nation. "I am resigning from the office."
The protests in Armenia have been mostly non-violent with some exception, but still quite disruptive. The opposition's strategy from the start was to block traffic and otherwise create problems for the administration of the capital.
Clashes between the protesters and the police occasionally erupted when the law enforcement tried to clear streets blocked by rallies, as was the case with the Sunday's crackdown that ended with the arrests of the three leaders and over 200 other people.
The police would normally release those detained shortly after arrest.
Before the Prime Minister resigned on Monday an estimated 50 unarmed soldiers from a unit stationed in the capital Yerevan were filmed joining the civilian crowds.
The country's defense ministry threatened to discipline them, saying that the service members violated military regulations and the principle of the army's neutrality in politics.

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