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Gyumri council of elders elects Vardan Ghukasyan as mayor
... – 6 mandates "My Mighty Community" party (Ruben Mkhitaryan) – 3 mandates "Mother Armenia" bloc (Karen Simonyan) – 2 mandates Immediately after the elections, "My Mighty Community" and "Mother Armenia" announced their support for Ghukasyan, as the candidate from the party that came in second. They called on the rest of the opposition to join them. A few days later, on April 4, Martun Grigoryan announced that the "Our City" bloc would also ...
04/16/2025Opposition victory in Parakar, intrigue remains in Gyumri: election results in two communities in Armenia
... northern capital of Armenia, 47,443 out of 111,271 eligible voters participated in the election, with a turnout of 42.66%. Among the political forces that passed the minimum... ... party (Ruben Mkhitaryan) with 7.94%, and the "Mother Armenia" bloc (Karen Simonyan) with 6.18%. The remaining four parties/blocs did not cross the minimum threshold... ... Karakazaryan), and the Workers' Socialist Party of Armenia (Artem Tumanyan). Meanwhile, two opposition movements—the "Mother Armenia" bloc led by Andranik Tevanyan...
03/31/2025Parliament speaker: it will be very difficult if Civil Contract fails to win 50%+ of votes in Yerevan Council of Elders elections
"I think it will be very difficult for us if such a situation arise," Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan said when asked if new security problems would arise if the Civil Contract party of PM Pashinyan failed to win 50%+ votes in the Yerevan Council of Elders elections. . YEREVAN, September 17. /ARKA/. "I think it will be very difficult for us if such a situation arise," Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan said when asked if new security problems would arise if the Civil Contract ...
09/17/2023Armenian ruling party nominates its candidate for post of CEC chair
... controls 71 seats in the 107-member National Assembly has nominated Vahagn Hovakimyan for the post of chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), the Public Television of Armenia reported. YEREVAN, October 3. /ARKA/. The ruling Civil Contract ... ... activities, he asked the Civil Contract party to suspend his party membership. Hovakimyan also asked parliament chairman Alen Simonyan to relieve him as deputy chairman of the parliament committee on state and legal issues. Hovakimyan will also resign ...
10/03/2022David Arakelyan appointed head of presidential staff
Armenia’s Acting President Alain Simonyan has appointed David Arakelyan as head of the presidential staff. Before this appointment David Arakelyan worked as assistant ... ... assumed the duties of president after the resignation of Armen Sarkissian on January 23. Simonyan will hold the post until the election of new president by parliament in late February or early March.-0-
02/02/2022Ruling Civil Contract officially nominates Vahagn Khachatryan as candidate for president
The ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has officially nominated today Vahagn Khachaturyan as a candidate for President of Armenia, Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan, who will act as president until the election of a new one, told reporters. YEREVAN, February 1. /ARKA/. The ruling Civil Contract party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has officially nominated today Vahagn Khachaturyan as a candidate for President of Armenia, Parliament Speaker Alen ...
02/01/2022Armenian president Sarkisssian, who resigned Sunday, to be replaced by parliament chairman until new election
... of tools to influence the country’s foreign and domestic policies, will be replaced temporarily by Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan until a new president is elected by the parliament. YEREVAN, January 24. /ARKA/. Armenian President Armen Sarkissian,... ... entrepreneurship and other paid occupation, as well as may not be a member of any party during his or her term of office. Regular elections of the President are held not earlier than forty days and not later than thirty days before the end of his/her powers....
01/24/2022Hakob Arshakyan elected as deputy speaker of Armenian parliament
... of the Counting Commission Narek Babayan said he was backed by 71 lawmakers, all from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party. The opposition alliances Hayastan and Pativ Unem boycotted the voting. On August 3 they had boycotted the election of Speaker Alen Simonyan and Deputy Speaker Ruben Rubinyan. The opposition alliances’ joint candidate for the post of third Vice Speaker is Ishkhan Saghatelyan. Armenia’s National Assembly comprises the Civil Contract party, which won 53.91% of the votes (71 seats), the Hayastan (Armenia) bloc (29 seats), and ...
08/04/2021Armenian opposition to challenge parliament speaker’s election at Constitutional Court
... 3. /ARKA/. Armenian opposition alliances Hayastan (Armenia) and Pativ Unem (I Have Honor), which boycotted yesterday’s election of speaker of the National Assembly, said they will appeal to the Constitutional Court to challenge the results of the election held during the first session of the new parliament on August 2. The National Assembly elected Alen Simonyan from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyna’s Civil Contract as speaker. The opposition alliances nominated two Hayastan members elected to the parliament, Mkhitar Zakaryan and Artur Sargsyan, for the post. Zakaryan and Sargsyan ran two communities in the southern province of Syunik. Both were arrested three weeks ago on separate ...
08/03/2021Deputy parliament speaker sure that ruling majority will win snap polls
... Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan from the ruling My Step bloc told reporters on Friday. YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will remain in power until early parliamentary elections are held, Deputy Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan from the ruling My Step bloc told reporters on Friday. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said March 18 that early general elections will be held in the country on June 20. Pashinyan has been facing opposition demands to resign since he signed a peace deal in November with Azerbaijani and Russian leaders to end the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh that claimed thousands of young lives, and saw Azerbaijan reclaim control over large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh ...
03/19/2021Deputy parliament speaker claims opposition parties are against snap polls
... elections for a lot of reasons: some are not ready, the others know that they will not succeed, the third want an interim prime minister in order to get state leverage and use them to rig the polls in their favor,' Simonyan said. On the demands of the opposition forces that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan step down Simonyan said that if the prime minister does not resign, there will be no elections, so the resignation of the prime minister "will be one way or another." The only party, which is ready for snap elections is the Prosperous Armenia, according to Simonyan. He said Prosperous Armenia leader Gagik Tsarukyan and Nikol ...
03/17/2021Opposition parties in Armenian parliament to ignore voting on new members of Supreme Judicial Council
... discussions and voting on the election of two new members of the Supreme Judicial Council. YEREVAN, January 22. /ARKA/. Two opposition parties, represented in the Armenian parliament- the Prosperous Armenia and the Bright Armenia - will not take part in the discussions and voting on the election of two new members of the Supreme Judicial Council. One of the two nominees is Gagik Jahangiryan, a former senior prosecutor ... ... the candidates. This is a political decision of our party, ” said Iveta Tonoyan, an MP from the Prosperous Armenia. Taron Simonyan from the Bright Armenia party, said his party does not see an opportunity to influence the choice of the ruling majority,...
01/22/2021Armenian prime minister appears in court to give testimony
... today before a lower Yerevan court judge to give testimony regarding an incident that occurred during the 2017 parliamentary elections campaign. YEREVAN, April 3. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was summoned today before a lower Yerevan ... ... the attacker. The pistol was then handed to the police, who detained the attacker. “I learned about the incident from Alen Simonyan and went immediately to the scene of the incident, where I saw our activists Hayk Sargsyan being attacked. The cause ...
04/03/2019Bills call for payment of indemnities to citizens injured in 2008 March events and seizure of police station in Yerevan in 2016
... 1-2 events in Yerevan back in 2008. YEREVAN, February 11. /ARKA/. A deputy speaker of Armenia’s National Assembly Alen Simonyan from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s My Step bloc said in a Facebook post today that he and another deputy speaker ... ... citizens who were injured during the seizure of a police station in Yerevan by Sasna Tsrer armed group in July 2016. The Armenian opposition, led by the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who ran for the 2008 presidential elections, held rallies in the center of Yerevan for several days, expressing dissatisfaction with the results of the vote that ...
02/11/2019My Step Bloc unveils top ten names in its election list
My Step bloc of Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has unveiled the top ten names in its election list, which are placed on the Facebook page of Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan. YEREVAN, November 14. /ARKA/.... ... ten names in the list are as follows: Nikol Pashinyan, Ararat Mirzoyan, Lena Nazaryan, Tigran Avinyan, Araik Harutyunyan, Alen Simonyan, Sasun Mikayelyan, Lilit Makunts, Suren Papikyan, and Zaruhi Batoyan. The deadline for political parties and blocs to ...
11/14/2018Armenian prime minister’s party nominates Hayk Marutyan as Yerevan mayor candidate
The Civil Contract party has already put up is candidate for the Yerevan mayor post, Alen Simonyan, a member of the party, told journalists Sunday night. YEREVAN, July 30. /ARKA/. The Civil Contract party has already ... ... candidate for the Yerevan mayor post, Alen Simonyan, a member of the party, told journalists Sunday night. He said that the selection has been carried out in two rounds. Of the four candidates singled out by the party initially, two remained at the second ...
07/30/2018Alen Simonyan stripped of Council of Elders mandate
Acting on a formal request by Yerevan mayor Taron Margaryan Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has stripped Alen Simonyan of a mandate of a member of the Council of Elders of Yerevan (the capital city’s legislative assembly), CEC press secretary Hermine Harutyunyan told ARKA. YEREVAN, May 24. /ARKA/. Acting on a formal request by Yerevan mayor Taron Margaryan ...
05/24/2018ARF ministers and governors tender their resignations
... Artsvik Minasyan, as well as the governor of Shirak province Artur Khachatryan and the governor of Aragatsotn province Ashot Simonyan, all members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), known also as Dashnaktsutyun, have tendered their resignations.... ... parliament chairman Ara Babloyan said the parliament will call an extraordinary session on May 1 ‘to discuss the issue of election of new prime minister.-0-
04/26/2018Representative of bloc: Members to Yerevan council to be elected for their party affiliation, not their programs
... electing members to the city council on May 5, will take into account political preferences of candidates, not their programs, Alen Simonyan, a member of Barev Yerevan (hello, Yerevan) bloc and the editor of Ararat magazine, said at a news conference today. ... ... Yerevan (hello, Yerevan) bloc and the editor of Ararat magazine, said at a news conference today. “For example, the election program of the Republican Party of Armenia contains quite interesting and positive prospects, but actually nothing is ...
04/13/2013Yerevan voter eats his ballot
A voter in Yerevan ate his ballot at a polling station in Nor Nork administrative district as his country fellows are voting today in the presidential election. According to the chairman of the precinct election commission Arman Simonyan, the voter, Arthur Minasyan, came out of the voting booth, ate his ballot, chanting simultaneously political slogans. YEREVAN, February 18. / ARKA /. A voter in Yerevan ate his ballot at a polling station in Nor Nork administrative district ...
02/18/2013Eight candidates registered for Armenian presidential election
Seven of the 15 citizens who have applied to the Central Electoral Commission for registration for presidential election remain out of the presidential race, since they have failed to pay AMD 8 million (about $20,000) necessary for registration.... ... presidential race, since they have failed to pay AMD 8 million (about $20,000) necessary for registration. They are Robert Simonyan, chairman of Kashtakh NGO; Pavlik Sargsyan, a pensioner; Narina Mkrtchyan, chair of the National Press Club; Mher Hayrapetyan,...
01/10/2013Another Armenian presidential candidate quits the race
The leader of “Armenian-Russian public union” Robert Aharonyan announced Thursday on quitting Armenia’s presidential election race, Novosti-Armenia reports. YEREVAN, January 10. /ARKA/. The leader of “Armenian-Russian public union” ... ... Karabakh Arman Meliqyan, political scientist Andrias Ghukasyan, specialist in epos Vardan Sedrakyan, Kashatagh NGO chairman Robert Simonyan, pensioner Pavlik Sargsyan, unemployed Mher Hayrapetyan. -0-
01/10/2013Over 25,000 citizens added to list of voters over 8 months in Armenia: Police
... filled out by another 25, 053 citizens from 6 May 2012 to 6 January 2013, Police said yesterday. As to the parliamentary elections, the number of constituents accounted to 2, 485, 844 in the republic. Some 60, 645 citizens were included into the ... ... Karabakh Arman Meliqyan, political scientist Andrias Ghukasyan, specialist in epos Vardan Sedrakyan, Kashatagh NGO chairman Robert Simonyan, pensioner Pavlik Sargsyan, unemployed Robert Aharonyan and Mher Hayrapetyan. The president of Armenian Combat Karate ...
01/10/2013Armenian Combat Karate National Federation president out of presidential election race- media sources
... able to collect up to 14 million drams (over $34,000). We failed to collect 24 million drams (nearly $61,000) necessary for the election pledge (about $20,000) and the election campaign. I decided today to refuse from running for president, as the amount ... ... Karabakh Arman Meliqyan, political scientist Andrias Ghukasyan, specialist in epos Vardan Sedrakyan, Kashatagh NGO chairman Robert Simonyan, pensioner Pavlik Sargsyan, unemployed Robert Aharonyan and Mher Hayrapetyan. -0-
01/10/2013Nearly 30,000 observers to monitor presidential elections in Armenia
The watchdog group during Armenia’s presidential elections is expected to be the same as that at the parliamentary elections, the chief of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) ... ... Karabakh Arman Meliqyan, political scientist Andrias Ghukasyan, specialist in epos Vardan Sedrakyan, Kashatagh NGO chairman Robert Simonyan, pensioner Pavlik Sargsyan, unemployed Robert Aharonyan and Mher Hayrapetyan. Another potential candidate, Ruben Ayvazyan,...
01/09/2013Armenia’s CEC to give more time to potential presidential candidates to pay election pledge
The potential candidates for Armenia’s president will have some more time to pay the election pledge, the head of Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) Tigran Mukuchyan said in the interview with Yerkir ... ... Karabakh Arman Meliqyan, political scientist Andrias Ghukasyan, specialist in epos Vardan Sedrakyan, Kashatagh NGO chairman Robert Simonyan, pensioner Pavlik Sargsyan, unemployed Robert Aharonyan and Mher Hayrapetyan. Another potential candidate, Ruben Ayvazyan,...
01/08/2013Armenian tycoon charged with March 1 disorders to run for parliament
... businessman Khachatur Sukiasyan, who was charged with organizing «mass disturbances" in Yerevan in the wake of 2008 presidential election, said officially he will contest the May 6 parliamentary elections in a single-mandate constituency in central Yerevan.... ... signing a pledge not to leave Yerevan. After he voluntarily renounced his parliamentary mandate, a by-election was held and an Ara Simonyan from the national Unity party was elected to parliament. Sukiasian was a parliament member in 2003-2007 and was re-elected ...
03/06/2012Head Of Yerevan State University Attributes His Reelection To Positive Changes Here
Aram Simonyan, head of the Yerevan State University, speaking Friday at a news conference, attributed his reelection to positive changes in the university for the recent years YEREVAN, July 8. /ARKA/. Aram Simonyan, head of the Yerevan State University, speaking Friday at a news conference, attributed his reelection to positive changes in the university for ...
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