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“YEREVAN MAYOR IGNORES PRIME MINISTER’S DECISION”

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“Go ahead Armenia, starving Armenia”, the victims of state needs mocked at the presidential candidate Serge Sargsyan’s slogan. They gathered in front of the Government building to meet the Prime Minister for the last time. Policemen did not allow the gathered citizens approach the Government building and tired to make them leave the Square. “It is cold, go home, you will get cold, you will not solve your problems standing here and crying”, urged the policemen.

“We will not leave until we meet the Prime Minister”, responded the demonstrators. Some officials arrived from the Municipality, among them Deputy Mayor Kamo Areyan, and offered the demonstrators to go to the Municipality and solve the problems there.

The residents of Dalma Gardens, North Avenue, Koghbatsi and Tigran Mets streets did not want to leave without getting any response from the Government and stood in front of the Government for 2 hours. They wanted to meet only the Prime Minister, since “the Mayor does not want to solve our problems”. “The Prime Minister ordered the Mayor to settle our problems. Some times later the Mayor told us: “I will not provide you with apartments. Turn to the one who has promised it to you””.

“Does it mean that the Mayor ignores the Prime Minister’s decision? The Mayor tells the Prime Minister as if he does his best to settle our problems”, said Vachagan Hakobyan, Chairman of the “Protection of Property Rights” NGO. The demonstrators noted that they did not trust anyone, since “they have been deceiving us for 4 years”.

Vachagan Hakobyan told “A1+” that they negotiated with the oppositional presidential candidates Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Arthur Baghdasaryan and Vazgen Manukyan. “If they do not solve our problems by the end of the week, we will join the opposition candidates and will fight against the authorities”, said Vachagan Hakobyan, noting that the authorities tried to detain him. “If something happens to me, the authorities and the police will be responsible for it”.

Serge Sargsyan did not receive the demonstrators since he was in the region of Lori. The participants of the protest action left the Square warning that if the Prime Minister did not meet them during the upcoming days, they would join the opposition parties.