Tension increases

03/03/2008

As of yesterday the fifth day of the non-stop rally of the first president and his supporters continues in the Liberty Square. The protestors demand that the government should cancel the results of February 19 elections of Armenia. Every day new statesmen join Ter-Petrosyan’s movement. Yesterday the heads of three departments of the RA Trade and Economic Development, the members of the Yerkrapah Union and others joined the movement. The number of people, who spend the night in the square, increases. The evidence of that is the increasing number of tents. Besides that, about a dozen of citizens went on a hunger strike demanding to cancel the results of the election and conduct a new one. Yesterday during the rally members of the RPA and Prosperous Armenia were approaching the rostrum and tearing their membership tickets.