(27 Apr 2018) An Armenian opposition MP who led mass protests that toppled the country's longtime ruler Serzh Sargsyan has accused Armenia's ruling Republican party of "deepening" the country's political crisis.
Protest leader Nikol Pashinian was expected to meet acting prime minister Karen Karapetian at noon to discuss the political crisis that has gripped the landlocked former Soviet nation.
But Karapetian's office announced on Friday morning that it called off the talks because Pashinian was "dictating the agenda".
Pashinian's protest movement holds just a fraction of seats at the parliament while Karapetian's party has a majority.
Karapetian became acting prime minister after his ally, Sargsyan, stepped down on Monday following nearly two weeks of anti-government protests.
The parliament is set to vote next week on the new prime minister.
The opposition wants a transfer of power that would ensure that Sargsyan's allies would not be present in the new government, for fear that he would pull the strings behind the scenes.
Several hundred people rallied in the centre of the capital Yerevan on a warm and sunny Friday morning to show their support for the opposition.

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