We will continue the boycott, we will not participate in any parliamentary sitting. Taguhi Tovmasyan, an MP of the opposition "With Honor" Faction in the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia and Chair of the NA Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs, told this to reporters Wednesday at Freedom Square in downtown Yerevan.

"We will continue our actions at Freedom Square. We are taking a temporary break from legislative work," she added.

To the remark that in that case there will be no opposition in the parliament to the authorities, including to the prime minister, Tovmasyan said: "We will oppose from Freedom Square. And if the need arises, we can return to parliament at any time. We do not give up the mandates of the NA MP for that purpose, as well as for the purpose that the possible change of power will definitely be through the parliament, and the MPs will be needed. The National Assembly is not dissolved by giving up the parliamentary mandates. If it had been so, we would have taken that step long ago."

As for the fact that the "With Honor" Faction is mainly at Freedom Square, the opposition lawmaker assured that their actions are coordinated with the opposition "Armenia" Faction in the NA.

"There has never been a parliamentary opposition in Armenia that works so synchronously. We work in cooperation with each together. This is our part of the struggle, the ‘Armenia’ bloc will do its part, and we will join at some point," Taguhi Tovmasyan added.

Earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am reported that Artur Vanetsyan, the leader of the opposition "With Honor" Faction of the National Assembly and chairman of the opposition Homeland party of Armenia, announced on April 17 the start of protests—and with no term or end—at Freedom Square in downtown Yerevan. Sometime thereafter, Nver Kirakosyan and Artur Avagyan—two participants of the 44-day Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war in the fall of 2020—announced an indefinite hunger strike, and they came to Freedom Square Monday morning to start this hunger strike.