Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has resigned in order to pave the way to early elections or, as he put it,Pashinyan said in a televised address, adding that he and his government would continue to fulfill their duties until the elections, despite his resignation.Earlier, Pashinyan told the France 24 TV Channel that he expected the elections to be held in December. The former opposition leader was put in power by a parliamentary vote in May after weeks of mass protests against corruption and cronyism, but there have been no parliamentary elections since the revolution last spring. Nikol Pashinyan wished success to all political forces in the parliamentary elections and pledged that the government will ensure the free expression of people’s will in the polls. Mostly peaceful protests resulted in Sargsyan stepping down and Pashinyan elected prime minister in what some people, including Pashinyan himself, called a “revolution.”

In early October, Pashinyan clashed with his opposition parliament after it adopted a law that complicates the dissolution of the legislature. He then fired six ministers from the Prosperous Armenia and Dashnaktsutyun parties who backed the controversial bill which was sponsored by the former president Sargsyan's Republican Party.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigns from his post in order to dissolve the National Assembly and force early elections by the end of the year.