Tomorrow We Will Hold Our Main Rally: Ishkhan Saghatelyan Urges Citizens to Join

We have information that for the last 2-3 hours, police forces from all regions of the Republic of Armenia have been gathering in Yerevan. This was announced today, March 9, on Demirchyan Street by Ishkhan Saghatelyan, the coordinator of the "Homeland Salvation Movement."

“Once again, I call on the Chief of Police and all those who may try to provoke incidents during the night—I clearly and directly say, the responsibility is on you if you engage in provocations. We will continue our peaceful disobedience protests. Don’t try to provoke, guys. I’m saying it again, we are fighting for the army, for the nation and statehood, for Artsakh, for the sake of our children and yours,” he stated.

Saghatelyan urged citizens to join the protest disobedience action tomorrow around 8:30-9:00. “Today, Nikol is trying to disrupt the constitutional order; your presence maintains the Constitution of this country, and therefore, everyone’s presence is extremely necessary. Tomorrow at 16:00, we will hold our main rally; all our plans are in place, and we have plans for tomorrow as well. Let’s stand by the army, alongside Armenia and Artsakh, next to our country and Constitution, and drive away this evil regime.”

Saghatelyan also announced that they are giving Nikol Pashinyan until 12:00 tomorrow to resign. According to him, Pashinyan's statements regarding the intention to hold snap elections are a bluff.

It should be noted that today at 18:00, the deadline passed by which President Armen Sarkissian could have appealed to the Constitutional Court to contest the dismissal of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Onik Gasparyan, at Pashinyan's request, which Sarkissian did not do.

The president of the Chamber of Advocates, Ara Zohrabyan, published his response to the application addressed to the president. The letter received from the staff states that the question of dismissing Onik Gasparyan "in terms of legal procedures, constitutional responsibility, and political consequences, is within the authority and discretion of the Prime Minister."