Armenian National Congress rallying in Yerevan

2010-01-08 15:24:00

ArmInfo. The rally organized by the opposition Armenian National
Congress (ANC) has got underway in Yerevan.

Nearly 2000 people have gathered near the Monument for Vardan
Mamikonyan. ANC leaders led by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first
president of Armenia, are present at the rally. A procession will
follow the rally. The ANC is rallying against the result of the
additional parliamentary elections in the election district No10.
Nikol Pashinyan, the oppositionist, the editor of Haykakan Zhamanak
Daily, who is currently in custody, advanced his candidature at the
elections.

Pashinyan is charged with Articles 316.1 and 225.1 of the Armenian
Criminal Code (organizing mass public disturbances, using force
against a representative of the state and violating the law regarding
the staging of public events). Pashinyan had been wanted for over a
year and emerged from the underground after the president announced
amnesty. The deputy mandate of the above election district proved
vacant after the former parliamentarian Khachatur Sukiasyan was
deprived of his mandate for complicity in the incidents of March 2008
in Yerevan.