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Chairman of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Gagik Tsarukyan will meet with the members of his political team on Thursday evening to get briefed on the recent vote in the parliament and the developments that followed, his spokesperson Iveta Tonoyan said. 

She dismissed media reports alleging Tsarukyan is currently in Armenia but has failed to voice his position on the recent political developments in the country as ‘total disinformation’.

“I once again officially announce that it is disinformation. Gagik Tsarukyan has been on a private visit abroad and is returning today,” she wrote.   

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan decided to sack the ministers representing PAP and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) after lawmakers from the mentioned political forces joined the former ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) in passing a controversial bill that is expected to make it harder to dissolve the parliament and thus call snap elections.

The bill adopted with 67 votes in favor at an extraordinary sitting on Tuesday sparked protests outside the National Assembly.

Pashinyan slammed the bill as a “conspiracy against the Armenian people” when he addressed the protesters, stating those political forces that participated in the drafting of the bill and voted for it exposed themselves as ‘counterrevolutionary forces’.