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Opposition leader Artur Vanetsyan, who started an open-ended sit-in in Yerevan’s Liberty Square with a group of activists on April 17, says the first stage of the awareness campaign has been completed, adding it was a “total success”.

Vanetsyan, who leads the opposition With Honor (Pativ Unem) parliamentary faction and the Homeland Party, highlights that thousands of people opposing the incumbent authorities’ policies have come to the square since the start of the protest, realizing that the time has come for them to voice clear demands in a bid to remove them.

"We continue the indefinite protest and will remain camped out here 24 hours a day. But the second stage [of the protest movement], which started on April 25, will be more active. There will be marches and other acts of civil disobedience," he told reporters.

The oppositionist claims there is a hundred percent consensus among people that the government has failed in all areas.

“Thus, we urge the people not to lose heart, we shall fight to the end,” Vanetsyan said.