Agriculture Minister compares women with potatoes; Activists demand apology
A protest action was staged outside the Armenian government on Thursday. Protesters demanded that Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetyan apologize for his recent remark.
During a consultation in Shirak province on Wednesday, the Minister compared the sale of potato with marriage of girls, saying that traders must sell potato to the very first buyer just as parents marry their daughters off to the first one who proposes.
The protesters brought baskets of potatoes. They held banners that read “We demand that he apologizes to all the girls in the Republic of Armenia,” “Has your daughter heard what you said?”