ArmInfo. On the night of October 3, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian signed decrees on the dismissal of six ministers, who represented the Dashnaktsutyun and Prosperous Armenia parties in the government.
According to the report of the President's Office, Armen Sarkissian dismissed them at the suggestion of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Hrachya Rostomyan, Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technologies Ashot Hakobyan, Head of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs Levon Vahradyan, Minister of Agriculture Artur Khachatryan, as well as Minister of Economic Development and Investments Artsvik Minasyan lost their posts.
To recall, yesterday at the call of RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan thousands of people gathered in front of the building of the Armenian parliament in Yerevan to protest against the bill passed by the deputies, which makes it difficult to dissolve the parliament. The prime minister called the bill "counterrevolutionary" and promised to resign after the dismissal of ministers and governors from the Prosperous Armenia and Dashnakutsutyun parties.