YEREVAN. – Member of the Armenian National Congress Nikol Pashinyan addressed participants of the Friday rally in support of Raffi Hovannisian, calling on them “not to let Serzh Sargsyan stay calm.”

“He must feel the danger of losing power, that he has never been and would not be the president of Armenia,” Pashinyan said, addressing the demonstrators.

According to him, the February 18 presidential election showed the country’s two political poles – the regime and society consolidated under the leadership of Raffi Hovannisian.

At the same time the opposition member warned against any hasty and chaotic actions, because the party that will take such steps will lose. Pashinyan also stressed the need to exclude any use of force by the authorities. At the same time, he said opposition should rule out reaching any agreements with the ruling regime.

Secretary of the Heritage party Stepan Safaryan, secretary of the parliamentary faction Zaruhi Postanjyan and former deputy speaker of the parliament Karapet Rubinyan also took the floor.