YEREVAN. – The “We Pay 100 Drams” initiative activists, who started a sit-in in front of the Armenian capital city Yerevan Municipality since noon on Friday, issued their code of conduct for the duration of the sit-in (photo).   

They spent the night across the city hall, and they sang patriotic songs and played guitar sitting on the municipality stairs and the grass. 

To note, the activists have a seven-point demand. One of the demands is for the public transport fee to reduce to 50 drams (approx. $0.12) for the next five days, to compensate for the five-day fare hike. They also demand that Mayor Taron Margaryan be brought to account. In addition they demand the dismissal of Municipality Transport Department Chief Henrik Navasardyan and Yerevan Trans Company Director Misak Hambardzumyan, and state that they will not leave the municipality premises until these officials resign.        

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Yerevan Municipality recent decision to increase the public transport fares in the city had brought about outbursts, several groups were formed in the social networks, and the initiatives were staging protests and distributing pamphlets against this decision. In addition, the “Free Car” initiative was launched, along the lines of which Armenia’s numerous well-known personalities, MPs, and ordinary residents were providing—with their own vehicles—free transportation to the people.

And on Thursday, Mayor Taron Margaryan suspended the decision on the fare hike; but the wave of the aforesaid movement is still alive.