National Assembly deputy Arman Babajanyan writes on his Facebook page:

“FOR THE REPUBLIC” PARTY, Announcement.

“We condemn the march led by the political forces demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister of Armenia on 5 December to the government cottages, where the official’s family and minor children live.

This is an unprecedented encroachment on the human right to family life, personal space, which in a democratic state cannot be considered a moral means of political struggle.

During the nearly twenty years of political struggle, the opposition has not even made an attempt to direct the people to the government cottages, but only to the official’s workplace. Even in April 2018, the inadmissible actions taken near the houses of the NA deputies on their own initiative were not approved by the organizers of the rallies.

What happened is doubly worrying in the context of the information that the supporters of many of the organizers of today’s rally were those who initiated the brutal beating of NA President Ararat Mirzoyan on 9-10 November, the perpetrators of violence in the government and the National Assembly.

We strongly condemn and consider inadmissible the formation of such unacceptable precedent. The means to achieve the declared goal must remain exclusively political, at the same time within the limits of restraint and morality.

“Governing Body of the “For the Republic” Party.”