SUKHUM, May 30. /ITAR-TASS/. Abkhazia’s temporary People’s Council considers President’s Ankvab’s refusal to resign, on what the parliament has insisted, as a demonstration of “lack of responsibility and absolute indifference to the nation’s future.”

“Alexander Ankvab has lost touch with the country’s nation and the reality, thus he cannot remain the country’s leader,” the opposition says in a statement, calling on the president to resign.

The temporary People’s Council says “it is time to begin the long-awaited political and social reforms to help our Fatherland to recover.”

On Thursday, the local parliament announced a vote of no confidence to Prime Minister Leonid Lakerbaia and called on President Ankvab to resign.