The All Armenian Labour Party ( hy, Համահայկական աշխատավորական կուսակցություն), also known as the Pan-Armenian Workers' Party, is a
social democratic
Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ...
political party
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in
Armenia
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.
History
Prior to the
2003 Armenian parliamentary elections, the party announced its support and helped finance the
Armenian Revolutionary Federation
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( hy, Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն, ՀՅԴ ( classical spelling), abbr. ARF or ARF-D) also known as Dashnaktsutyun (collectively referred to as Dashnaks for short), is an Armenian ...
's campaign.
Following the election, the party won two seats in the National Assembly as part of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's constituency list.
Prior to the
2007 Armenian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 12 May 2007. 1,364 candidates ran for the 131 seats, 41 of which were constituency seats with the remaining 90 being filled by a proportional party-list system. The electoral threshold was five per ...
, one member of the party became a deputy in the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
under the
Republican Party of Armenia
The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA, hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետական Կուսակցություն, ՀՀԿ; ''Hayastani Hanrapetakan Kusaktsutyun'', ''HHK'') is a national-conservative political party in Armenia led by the thir ...
's electoral list. The party has not participated in any subsequent Armenian parliamentary elections since 2007.
See also
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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 m ...
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Politics of Armenia
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References
Turner, Barry, ed. The Statesman's Yearbook 2008: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World. Springer, 2017.
Labour parties
Political parties in Armenia
Political parties with year of establishment missing
Social democratic parties in Armenia
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