Andrias Marati Ghukasyan ( hy, Անդրիաս Մարատի Ղուկասյան) is an

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

n political analyst. Ghukasyan was one of seven candidates in the 2013 presidential election.

Early life

In 1987, he finished secondary school at N83. In the same year he entered the

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 ...

Department of Economics. From 1988 to 1989, he served in the

Soviet Army uk, Радянська армія , image = File:Communist star with golden border and red rims.svg , alt = , caption = Emblem of the Soviet Army , start_date ...

. In 1994, he graduated from

having an "Economic Cybernetics" specialty and received a degree in economics-mathematics. In 2005, he graduated from the St. Petersburg International Economic Relations, Economics and Law Institute, earning his bachelor's degree in Jurisprudence.

Politics

Hunger strike

On January 21, 2013, Ghukasyan started a hunger strike in front of 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 ...

building in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

. He had a large poster, written in Armenian and English demanding to "Stop fake elections". Finishing his protest after the results were announced, Ghukasyan, together with another opposition candidate, Raffi Hovhannisian, a US-born Armenian politician who is the founder of the Heritage Party
filed an appeal
with the Armenian Constitutional Court to dispute the results of the election (which gave incumbent

Serzh Sargsyan Serzh Azati Sargsyan ( hy, Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան, ; born 30 June 1954)Of ...

a second term).

Rise up, Armenia

On July 16, 2015 he co-founded the Rise up, Armenia movement. It opposes raising electricity tariffs and organizes rallies against raising electricity tariffs generally in Republic Square. On August 21, 2015 he with other Rise up, Armenia members was apprehended during a rally, freed after several hours. He was arrested in July 2016, during the

2016 Yerevan hostage crisis On 17 July 2016, a group of armed men calling themselves the ''Daredevils of Sasun'' (; the name is taken from an epic poem) stormed a police station in Yerevan, Armenia and took nine hostages. They demanded the release of opposition leader Jir ...

Armenian Constructive Party

In July 2018, Andrias Ghukasyan established the Armenian Constructive Party. In May 2021, the Armenian Constructive Party joined the Free Homeland Alliance to participate in early parliamentary elections.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghuksyan, Andrias Armenian political scientists Armenian politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Hunger strikers