YEREVAN. - The awareness action held by ‘No to Plunder’ initiative finished in Liberty Square of capital Yerevan. The initiative member Maxim sargsyan told Armenian News – NEWS.am that the awareness action yielded positive results, since the action originally had 50 participants, this number reaching 100 on return.   

“The action participants returned to Liberty Square with more people. This means that holding an awareness action was a correct decision,” he said.

Sargsyan also said that the sit-in participants are going to watch a film in Liberty Square tonight, but haven’t yet decided on the film.

The number of the sit-in participants has abruptly increased. The sit-in is controlled by a large number of police officers.

As reported earlier, during the protest against electricity price hike, ‘No to Plunder’ initiative suddenly announced they are launching a 3-day sit-in in the Liberty Square, setting a deadline for the authorities till 19:00 Monday evening. In case the decision on electricity price hike isn’t revoked, they are planning to march to the president’s residence.

Despite the numerous protest actions over the electricity price hike, the new electricity tariff was approved at the session of Armenia’s Public Services Regulatory Commission of Armenia (PSRC) on June 17. The electricity price has gone up by 6,93 AMD, reaching 48,78 AMD (previously 41,85 AMD) per 1 kWh.  Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) CJSC had proposed to raise the electricity price by 17 AMD per 1 kWh.