Baku, Azerbaijan, May 2
Trend:
Three hundred employees of the locomotive depot in Gyumri (Armenia) went on strike and joined the opposition movement, one of the organizers of the protest actions in the city Karen Margaryan told TASS correspondent.
"Three hundred workers of locomotive depot didn't come to work in the morning and joined our actions of civil disobedience", he noted. Magaryan said in the morning the protesters blocked all the main state buildings of the city and paralyzed traffic on the streets.
"Everything in Gyumri is now paralyzed. We demand to elect the opposition leader Nikol Pashinian as the Prime Minister of the country", - a source told TASS correspondent.
The mass rallies of the opposition supporters continue unabated in Armenia since April 13. On April 23, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned amid protests. First Deputy Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan was appointed acting Prime Minister.
On May 1, the Parliament rejected the candidacy of opposition leader Nikol Pashinian to the post of Prime Minister. 45 legislators voted for him, while he needed to score 53 votes for being elected as the Prime Minister. After that, he called on his supporters to launch large-scale actions of civil disobedience. The next vote on the candidacy of the head of government should be held on May 8.