The Mother Armenia Alliance ( hy, Մայր Հայաստան դաշինք, translit=Mayr Hayastan dashink’) is an Armenian

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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

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under the

Armenia Alliance Armenia Alliance ( hy, Հայաստան դաշինք, Hayastan dashink’, HD) is an Armenian political alliance. It was founded in 2021 and is currently led by former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. History During the 2020–2021 Armenian ...

. 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 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, pr ...

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 Robert Sedraki Kocharyan ( hy, Ռոբերտ Սեդրակի Քոչարյան ; born 31 August 1954) is an Armenian politician. He served as the President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from 1994 to 1997 and Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh from ...

and 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 ...

, endorsed the Mother Armenia Alliance. The party participated in the 2023 Yerevan City Council election, nominating Andranik Tevanyan as their candidate for

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. Following the election, the party won 12 seats in the

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, gaining 15.43% of the vote. On 19 September 2023, Andranik Tevanyan called for the impeachment of Prime Minister

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 ...

. Tevanyan was detained by police on 21 September 2023, during

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in Yerevan.

Ideology

The party's stated aim is to "overcome the security challenges facing Armenia and Artsakh". The alliance has called to deepen Armenia's political and military relations with

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and

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, while also maintaining cordial relations with

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. The party supports the expansion of the middle class, increasing the minimum wage, and further developing the

economy of Armenia The Armenian economy contracted sharply in 2020, by 5.7%, mainly due to the 2020 Armenia-Azerbaijan war. In contrast it grew by 7.6 per cent in 2019, the largest recorded growth since 2007, while between 2012 and 2018 GDP grew 40.7%, and key ba ...

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History

Ideology

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