A new public opinion poll in Armenia found that 27.8% of respondents strongly feel that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan should resign, while another 13.9% agreed that the resignation is necessary. These numbers are from a poll performed by the Armenian office of the Gallup International Association, chaired by Aram Navasardyan.

According to the poll, 25.8% of those who responded said Pashinyan should not resign. Another 12.95% seemed to agree with this viewpoint, while 19.6% couldn't say for sure. According to the survey, 49.9% of the respondents absolutely negatively assess the current political situation in Armenia, 16.6% assess it as rather negatively, 7.3% as positively, 15% as rather positively and 11.4% found it difficult to answer the question. "We can see that overall, more than 66% of Armenian citizens negatively [assess] the political situation," said Navasardyan.

Respondents were also asked to choose an acceptable solution to the current political situation in Armenia: 27.6% said there was no need for changes, 26.6% said new parliamentary elections were needed, 21.8% favoured formation of a transitional government, 11.4% saw a solution in suppressing the opposition, and 12.6% found it difficult to answer. On the opposition's street protests, 33.3% of respondents said they assessed them exclusively negatively, 2.3% - rather negatively, 16.6% - rather positively and 15.9% - exclusively positively. Of those polled some 8.2% were or are taking part in the street protests, while the majority of them (64.6%) went to rallies. Some 26.3% of respondents estimated the police performance exclusively positively, 19.8% - rather positively, 20.3% - rather negatively, 16.9% - negatively and 16.6% found it difficult to answer.

Asked if it was acceptable to give Nagorno-Karabakh the status of a national minority within Azerbaijan, 83.3% of the respondents said it was "definitely unacceptable" and 6% said it was "rather unacceptable." This option was described as ‘acceptable’ only by 1.5% of the respondents, ‘rather acceptable’ by 2.9% and 6.4% found it difficult to answer. "The vast majority, almost 90%, said that this approach is unacceptable for them," said Navasardyan. According to the poll, 45.7% of the respondents were not aware of the trilateral meeting of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of the European Council Charles Michel, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on May 22. The results of the negotiations were assessed as totally positive by 11.2% of the polled who knew about the meeting, as rather positive by 23.5%, as rather negative by 15.4% and as completely negative by 35.6%. Those polled think that Armenia is able to receive military assistance in the form of weapons and military forces mainly from Russia (48.1%), France (13.9%), USA (6.4%), Iran (1.7%), and CSTO (1.1%).

The telephone survey conducted on May 26-28 and involved 1,003 people.