At the moment the Municipality of Yerevan is holding an emergency meeting.
ArmInfo's source in the Municipality says that the meeting covers the issue of resignation of all deputy mayors and advisors to Mayor Taron Margaryan.
Earlier on Friday, ArmInfo reported with reference to the same source that Head of the Municipality's Transport Department Henrik Navasardyan, Head of the Public Relations Department Artur Gevorgyan, as well as Head of Yerevantrans Misak Hambardzumyan sent in their resignation on Thursday. Maria Baragamyan, employee at the Municipality's Tourism Department, will replace Artur Gevorgyan. The Municipality will officially announce their resignation later.
The resignations are conditioned by the situation that arose following the mayor's decision to raise the public transport fare. Despite Taron Margaryan's July 25 statement about suspension of the decision on public transport fare rise, the Let's Pay 100 AMD movement participants have organized an action of protest in front of the Municipality of Yerevan. They demand that the decision on the public transport fare rise should be cancelled, not suspended. In addition, they demand resignation of Head of the Municipality's Transport Department Henrik Navasardyan and Head of Yerevantrans Misak Hambardzumyan. The protesters also demand improving the quality of transport services and reducing the fare to 50 AMD within the next 7 days so as to compensate for the Yerevan residents' expenses over the past few days, because the fare was raised illegally.