YEREVAN. – The sit-in, which started several days ago in front of the building of the Armenian capital city Yerevan Municipality, is continuing.

The participants demand the resignation of Mayor Taron Margaryan and several other officials.

The police are guarding the building while the city hall is continuing to water the sidewalk, to make the activists leave from in front of the building.   

The activists, however, have petitioned to Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan, and noted that if Margaryan does not order to stop watering the sidewalk and if Gasparyan does not secure the sit-in participants a sidewalk to carry out their action, the activists will have to carry out their protest on the street across the municipality building, thereby obstructing traffic.    

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 July 25, Mayor Taron Margaryan suspended the decision on the fare hike; but the wave of the aforesaid movement is still alive. The activists demand that the persons, who made the decision on raising the transport fares, be brought to account, and those officials, who used violence against and cursed at the activists, be punished.