Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step bloc moved on Wednesday to install a former senior prosecutor long criticized by human rights groups as a member of a state body overseeing Armenian courts.
Thousands of people poured into Yerevan’s main square on Tuesday as the Armenian opposition tried to intensify its campaign for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
A coalition of more than a dozen Armenian opposition parties vowed to force Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign soon as thousands of its supporters continued to demonstrate in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political team are ready to discuss with the Armenian opposition the possibility of holding fresh parliamentary elections, a senior pro-government lawmaker said on Thursday.
The Constitutional Court has thrown out an appeal by the leadership of the Armenian parliament to strip Gagik Tsarukian, the leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), of his parliament seat.
A coalition of 16 Armenian opposition parties urged supporters to again take to the streets on Tuesday after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian ignored their ultimatum to resign and pave the way for snap parliamentary elections.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian dismissed on Wednesday opposition demands for his resignation, saying that they are not backed by most Armenians.
Armenia’s former Presidents Levon Ter-Petrosian, Serzh Sarkisian and Robert Kocharian have met for the first time in many years to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, it was announced on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met on Monday with senior members of several Armenian opposition groups, including the former ruling Republican Party (HHK), to discuss the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
Azerbaijani forces shelled Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital Stepanakert on Friday, injuring at least four local residents and damaging several buildings.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian denied through a spokeswoman on Tuesday secret collaboration with Russian implicitly alleged by a Russian opposition group.
A former member of an anti-corruption body has revealed his “preliminary consent” to be named a government candidate for a Constitutional Court judge soon.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian believes that the outcome of four-day deadly clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh in April 2016 was an Armenian victory because Azerbaijan “failed to achieve any of its political goals” in that escalation.
The Armenia government said on Friday it will likely extend a state of emergency by yet another month due to the continuing coronavirus crisis in the country.
President Armen Sarkissian has said that he must be legally empowered to appoint, rather than nominate, three of the nine members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
The Armenian government has done a good job tackling the coronavirus pandemic and is not solely responsible for the large number of infections in Armenia, Health Minister Arsen Torosian insisted on Friday.
Senior lawmakers from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step bloc criticized their opposition colleagues on Thursday for pushing for a parliamentary inquiry into the Armenian authorities’ response to the continuing coronavirus crisis in the country.
Gagik Tsarukian, the leader of the main opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), said on Tuesday that he has been infected with the coronavirus.
In an appeal dismissed by the government as null and void, the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Friday asked the Constitutional Court to invalidate constitutional changes mandating the immediate removal of three of its nine judges.
The Bright Armenia Party (LHK) said on Wednesday it will not join for now another parliamentary opposition group in challenging the legality of government-backed constitutional amendments calling for the dismissal of three of the nine members of the country’s Constitutional Court.
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