Armenian PM Sargsyan walks out of meeting with opposition

Armenian Top Minister Serzh Sargsyan walked out of a televised meeting with the leader of a burgeoning opposition motion on Sunday, after days of rallies calling for his resignation.

The lisp motion, which has set thousands of of us in the streets, is headed by opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan who has constructed and maintained a community of self-organising opposition supporters. 

« I got here here to focus on about your resignation, » Pashinyan, the leader of the opposition Civil Contract Social gathering, had urged the high minister in entrance of the cameras.

« This is no longer a dialogue, here is blackmail, I handiest can philosophize you to return to a obliging framework … in every other case, you can endure the responsibility, » Sargsyan answered.

« You bag no longer realize the set in Armenia. The energy is now in of us’s hands, » Pashinyan said.

Earlier than walking out of the meeting room, Sargsyan said: « A bag collectively that scored eight % in [parliamentary] elections can not focus on on behalf of the of us. »

Pashinyan then vowed to « step up stress » on Sargsyan to force him to resign.

A man waves an Armenian flag at a rally against the election of aged President Sargsyan as high minister [Artyom Geodakyan/TASS/Getty Images]

Sargsyan used to be appointed high minister this month after serving 10 years because the nation’s president.

Protesters have known as on him to step down, citing corruption and fears of oligarchic, authoritarian rule.

The aged president used to be about to entire his second and closing time frame before Armenia’s semi-presidential government used to be changed to a parliamentary machine, empowering the distance of the high minister, who does no longer face time frame limits.

Sargsyan had promised no longer to retract the role of high minister, nonetheless his majority in parliament appointed him earlier this month.

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and data businesses