At 8:30 p.m. local time, thousands of supporters of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) started a procession in the center of Yerevan. The NEWS.am correspondent working at the scene reports that the demonstrators demand the President’s resignation and early elections, chanting anti-government slogans. The procession is moving along Mashtots Avenue.

The demonstrators intend to go along Amiryan St. as far as Republic Square. The procession will traditionally be finished on North Avenue.

The procession is led by young people with uniforms on, a symbol of political prisoners in Armenia.

The ANC Chairman, Armenia’s first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, as well as the leaders of the other opposition political forces, is at the head of the procession.

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