[…] there must have been about 5,000 people present at the rally, and I would say between 40-50 percent of those in attendance were under the age of 25.

About 6,000 people join opposition rally in Yerevan

YEREVAN. May 6 (Interfax) - The Orinats Yerkir [Law-Based State] opposition party organized a rally in the center of Yerevan on Sunday to protest the leadership’s political course. The rally brought together about 6,000 participants.

“The current leadership is discrediting Armenia. All forms of pressure are being used against the Orinats Yerkir party. But this has not prevented us from drawing 10,000 new members to the party ranks over the past week,” Artur Bagdasarian, the party’s leader and ex- parliamentary speaker, said.

“We must be prepared to fight in the period to go before the parliamentary elections, on the polling day on May 12, and after the parliamentary elections. And if we find out afterwards that vote-rigging practices were used, we’ll say our emphatic ‘No’ to this and fight to the end,” Bagdasarian said.

If the results of the elections are falsified “a serious blow will be dealt at Armenia’s prestige,” he said.

Sociological polls indicate that Orinats Yerkir has a good chance of winning up to 12% votes in the upcoming parliamentary elections.