Arpine Davoyan (born 28 August 1985,) is an Armenian psychologist and politician. She is a founding member of the Civil Contract party and a member of Parliament since 2018.

Early life and education

Born in

Stepanavan Stepanavan ( hy, Ստեփանավան), is a town and municipal community in the Lori Province of Armenia. It is located 139 km north of the capital Yerevan and 24 km north of the provincial centre Vanadzor, halfway between Yerevan and T ...

Soviet Armenia The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...

, Davoyan studied psychology at the

Vanadzor State University Vanadzor State University named after Hovhannes Tumanyan (VSU) ( hy, Վանաձորի Հովհաննես Թումանյանի անվան Պետական Համալսարան), is a public university in Vanadzor, Lori Province, Armenia. With 5 facu ...

, from which she graduated in 2009. She is currently pursuing an Master's degree in political sciences at the

Armenian National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri az ...

Professional life

After her graduation in 2009, she worked as a high school psychologist until 2014. Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as an accountant in the private sector.

Political career

In 2015 she was a founding member of the Civil Contract party. She supported the

Way Out Alliance The Way Out Alliance ( hy, «Ելք» դաշինք, ԵԼՔ; ''YELK Dashink, YELQ'') or Yelk Alliance or simply Yelk or Way Out was a liberal political alliance of three political parties in Armenia: Civil Contract, Bright Armenia and the Hanrap ...

as a clerk in the Armenian Parliament between 2017 and 2018. In June 2018 she became as an assistant to

Nikol Pashinyan Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan ( hy, Նիկոլ Վովայի Փաշինյան, ; born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician serving as the prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in 1 ...

, the Prime Minister of Armenia of the Civil Contract. In the Parliamentary elections of December 2018, she was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Civil Contract of the

My Step Alliance The My Step Alliance ( hy, Իմ Քայլը դաշինք, Im Kaylə Dashink', IKD) was a political alliance in Armenia formed by the Civil Contract party, the Mission Party and various independent representatives of civil society. It was formed i ...

. In June 2019 she was elected as one of two women into the Board of the Civil Contract party. In Parliament, she defended the view that a country is in need of a healthy efficient opposition, but denied the current opposition were assuming such a role in January 2021.

References

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