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Apricot Country Party
The Apricot Country Party ( hy, Երկիր ծիրանի կուսակցություն, translit=Yerkir tsirani kusakts’ut’yun), also known as Yerkir Tsirani is a political party in Armenia. History The party was established in March 2017, prior to the 2017 Yerevan City Council election. Party leader Zaruhi Postanjyan, a former member of the Heritage party, was nominated to run for Mayor of Yerevan. Following the election, Postanjyan came in third place. On 9 November 2020, the party signed a joint declaration with the other member parties of the Homeland Salvation Movement calling on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign during the 2020–2021 Armenian protests. The party does not have any political representation in the National Assembly and currently acts as an extra-parliamentary force. Ideology The parties manifesto calls for the development of strong and progressive statehoods of both Armenia and Artsakh, while opposing authoritarianism. The party encourages econ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaruhi Postanjyan
Zaruhi Postanjyan ( hy, Զարուհի Փոստանջյան; born January 16, 1972, Yerevan) is an Armenian Member of Parliament since 2007, a public activist and a member of Heritage board. She was the head of "Heritage" faction of National Assembly of Armenia. Early life Zaruhi Postanjyan was born on January 16, 1972 in Yerevan, Armenia. She graduated from the Yerevan MYUD Law Institute in 1994. Career Postanjyan worked as a lawyer of Helsinki Association NGO, Armenia in 1998-1998. She received a patent on advocacy in 1999. She was a lawyer in Women’s Rights Center NGO in 1999-2000. She was the lawyer at the Wrestling Olympic Youth Sport School of Armenia. From 2000 to 2007 she was the Chairperson of the Advocates for Human Rights NGO, and the author and presenter of the TV programme ''Advocate''. Since 1999, she has been a member of Advocates’ Chamber of Armenia. On May 12, 2007 she was elected a member of the National Assembly of Armenia. In 2012 she was re-elected to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Diaspora
The Armenian diaspora refers to the communities of Armenians outside Armenia and other locations where Armenians are considered an indigenous population. Since antiquity, Armenians have established communities in many regions throughout the world. However, the modern Armenian diaspora was largely formed as a result of World War I, when the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire forced Armenians living in their homeland to flee or risk being killed. Another wave of emigration started with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Terminology In Armenian, the diaspora is referred to as spyurk (), spelled սփիւռք in classical orthography and սփյուռք in reformed orthography. In the past, the word gaghut ( գաղութ ) was used mostly to refer to the Armenian communities outside the Armenian homeland. It is borrowed from the Aramaic (Classical Syriac) cognate of Hebrew ''galut'' (גלות). History The Armenian diaspora has been present for over 1,700 years. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Establishments In Armenia
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *''Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'' (film), a 2009 film whose working title was ''17'' * ''Seventeen'' (2019 film), a Spanish drama film Television * ''Seventeen'' (TV drama), a 1994 UK dramatic short starring Christie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Programs Of Political Parties In Armenia
This article lists political parties of the National Assembly of Armenia and represents their programs. Armenia became an independent state in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then, many political parties were formed in it, who mainly work with each other to form coalition governments. Currently the country has a multi-party system. Armenian Revolutionary Federation Armenian Revolutionary Federation is a centre-left party which was founded in 1890, it is an observer member of the Party of European Socialists. The party currently has 10 seats in the National Assembly. Bright Armenia Bright Armenia is a classical liberal political party founded in 2015. Following the 2018 Armenian parliamentary election, the party emerged as the third largest in the National Assembly with 18 seats. The party is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and maintains a pro-European ideology and opposes Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Union. The party w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Armenia
The politics of Armenia take place in the framework of the parliamentary representative democratic republic of Armenia, whereby the President of Armenia is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Armenia the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President and the Government. Legislative power is vested in both the Government and Parliament. History Armenia became independent from the Russian Empire on 28 May 1918 as the ''Republic of Armenia'', later referred as First Republic of Armenia. About a month before its independence Armenia was part of short lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. Suffering heavy losses during the Turkish invasion of Armenia and after the Soviet invasion of Armenia, the government of the First Republic resigned on 2 December 1920. Soviet Russia reinstalled its control over the country, which later became part of the Transcaucasian SFSR. The TSFSR was dissolved in 1936 and Armenia became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Armenia Alliance
The Mother Armenia Alliance ( hy, Մայր Հայաստան դաշինք, translit=Mayr Hayastan dashink’) is an Armenian political party. History The Mother Armenia Alliance was established on 9 August 2023 during a founding congress held in Yerevan. Chairman of the party, Andranik Tevanyan, was a former non-partisan deputy in the National Assembly under the Armenia Alliance. Tevanyan left the Armenia Alliance and stepped down from his post in the National Assembly in order to run in the 2023 Yerevan City Council elections. The Apricot Country Party and the Intellectual Armenia Party subsequently joined the Mother Armenia Alliance, as did one member from the National Democratic Union. As response to the formation of the Mother Armenia alliance, the Armenia Alliance refrained from fielding candidates and together with former president Robert Kocharyan and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, endorsed the Mother Armenia Alliance. The party participated in the 2023 Yereva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Yerevan City Council Election
Yerevan City Council elections were held on 17 September 2023. The Yerevan City Council comprises 65 members, including the mayor and the first deputy mayor, elected through a proportional electoral system. City Council members are elected for a five-year term. The elections had the lowest turnout in the history of Yerevan. Civil Contract won 24 seats with 32.60 % of the votes, far short of the required 40% majority to have their leader automaticaly elected mayor, and their former ally Hanrapetutyun won 8. Together the two thus have 32 seats out of 65, one short of a majority otherwise required by the council to elect a mayor, while opposition parties held the other 33 seats. This resulted into Yerevan City Council being hung and it was unclear who would be the next mayor of Yerevan after the announcement of the preliminary results. Background 2021 parliamentary election After six weeks of war with Azerbaijan, on 9 November 2020 prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Armenian Parliamentary Election
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 20 June 2021. The elections had initially been scheduled for 9 December 2023, but were called earlier due to a political crisis following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War and an alleged attempted coup in February 2021. Nikol Pashinyan, who had served as Prime Minister since 2018, resigned in April 2021 and subsequently the seventh National Assembly was dissolved on 10 May. Pashinyan continued to serve as acting prime minister until the elections were held. Following the election, Pashinyan's Civil Contract party received 54% of the vote and won 71 seats, a majority in the 107-seat parliament. The opposition Armenia Alliance, finished second with 29 seats, while the I Have Honor Alliance won 7 seats. No other party or alliance surpassed the electoral threshold required to win a seat. The opposition claimed there had been electoral fraud during the elections, while the OSCE assessed the election as meeting international standard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption may involve many activities which include bribery, influence peddling and the embezzlement and it may also involve practices which are legal in many countries. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts with an official capacity for personal gain. Corruption is most common in Kleptocracy, kleptocracies, oligarchy, oligarchies, narco-states, and mafia states. Corruption and crime are endemic sociological occurrences which appear with regular frequency in virtually all countries on a global scale in varying degrees and proportions. Each individual nation allocates domestic resources for the control and regulation of corruption and the deterrence of crime. Strategies which are undertaken in order to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Fraud
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. It differs from but often goes hand-in-hand with voter suppression. What exactly constitutes electoral fraud varies from country to country. Electoral legislation outlaws many kinds of election fraud, * also at but other practices violate general laws, such as those banning assault, harassment or libel. Although technically the term "electoral fraud" covers only those acts which are illegal, the term is sometimes used to describe acts which are legal, but considered morally unacceptable, outside the spirit of an election or in violation of the principles of democracy. Show elections, featuring only one candidate, are sometimes classified as electoral fraud, although they may comply with the law and are presente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Armenian Parliamentary Election
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 9 December 2018, as none of the parties in the National Assembly were able to put forward and then elect a candidate for Prime Minister in the two-week period following the resignation of incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on 16 October. They were the first elections after the 2018 revolution and the country's first-ever snap elections. The result was a landslide victory for Pashinyan's My Step Alliance, which received 70% of the vote and won 88 of the 132 seats in the National Assembly. Electoral system The 101 members of the National Assembly are elected by party-list proportional representation. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with an election threshold of 5% for parties and 7% for multi-party alliances. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Yerevan City Council Election
Yerevan City Council elections were held on 23 September 2018. The snap election was trigged after the resignation of former mayor Taron Margaryan amid the aftermath of the 2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution. Well-known comedian and actor Hayk Marutyan, heading the electoral list of the My Step Alliance, was elected to the office of mayor of Yerevan. Candidates 979 candidates competed for 65 open seats in the Yerevan city council (also known as the "council of elders"). A total of 12 parties/alliances participated in the election (numbered below according to the electoral ballot listing): *1. Prosperous Armenia, led by Naira Zohrabyan, member of the National Assembly and the vice-president of Prosperous Armenia. *2. Yerevan Society Alliance (also known as "Happy Society Alliance"), includes the Green Party of Armenia and the Alliance of Ideological Liberals (GALA party), led by Anahit Tarkhanyan, wife of 2013 presidential election candidate Andrias Ghukasyan. *3. Yerevantsiner Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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