Armenia’s prime minister, Serzh Sargsyan, has said he will resign after days of large street protests against him, according to a statement posted on his website.
“The street movement is against my tenure. I am fulfilling your demand,” the statement said.
Hundreds of uniformed soldiers had joined anti-government demonstrators earlier on Monday on the 11th consecutive day of protests over an alleged power grab by Sargsyan.
Prior to Sargsyan’s resignation, and apparently yielding to opposition pressure, police released Nikol Pashinyan, a protest leader and opposition MP who had been arrested alongside hundreds of demonstrators on Sunday in an attempt to crush the demonstrations. Until his release, Pashinyan’s whereabouts had been unknown.
“Nikol! Nikol!” chanted protesters draped in Armenian flags as they marched in the country’s capital, Yerevan. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the city’s Republic Square at the weekend in one of the country’s largest demonstrations in years.
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