ArmInfo. In Armenia, democracy finally triumphed after a non- violent velvet revolution, in which there was no, absolutely no foreign force. Speaking at the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this.
He stressed that the velvet revolution in Armenia did not have geopolitical content or a trace. <It all started like this: in 2015, then de facto leader of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, initiated constitutional changes at the end of the second presidential term, as a result of which Armenia had to switch from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary form of government from April 2018. When these constitutional changes were initiated, he publicly promised that he would never again claim the post of head of the Republic of Armenia, in this case, the prime minister. Learning that my friends and I, on May 31, 2018, began a march from the second largest city of Armenia, Gyumri, to the capital of Yerevan, calling on the citizens of the Republic of Armenia to prevent Serzh Sargsyan from carrying out a political deception.
Pashinyan said that he and his supporters walked 200 km in 13 days. <And in Yerevan, many of our supporters joined our movement, and not only, even schoolchildren - boys and girls, followed by their elder brothers and sisters, then their mothers and fathers, then grandmothers and grandfathers. And although on April 17, 2018, Serzh Sargsyan was elected prime minister by parliament, and on April 22 I was again in prison, the next day, under the pressure of the people, Serzh Sargsyan was forced to set me at liberty and hand in resignation. This is how our revolution took place, which we call the revolution of love and solidarity, because it was originally based on the logic of non-violent struggle. Love, the idea of non- violent struggle really won the oligarchic, corruption system that ruled for many years in Armenia>, the prime minister said from the PACE rostrum.