Armenia’s main extra-parliamentary opposition bloc has announced it will launch another ‘rally wave’ on February 17.

In its statement issued on Thursday, the Armenian National Congress (ANC) said the rally on that day as well as others to follow before the May parliamentary elections will have on their agenda the issue of forcing President Serzh Sargsyan to step down as well as a demand for forming mechanisms to ensure the conduct of free and fair elections.

The ANC has already approved and published its election platform that includes proposals for holding fair and transparent elections, as well as ‘establishing a legitimate government in the country’.

“One of the demands laid out in the document is the holding of parliamentary elections under an all-proportional system, a matter that is now being pursued also by the two parliamentary forces,” the ANC said in a press release.

The ANC last held its demonstration in Yerevan in late November. Before that, the opposition alliance staged a ‘nonstop’ sit-in in Liberty Square for more than a week.

In late fall the ANC suspended its rallies, promising to return to ‘rally activity’ in February-March.