The Impeachment Union ( hy, Իմպիչմենթ դաշինք) was a
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
in
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 ' ...
.
History
Following 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 ...
s, the party won no seats, winning a popular vote of just 1.29%. The union's leader was
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 ...
. The union's main goal was the
impeachment of the then 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 fro ...
.
The party officially dissolved in 2008, after the nomination of
Levon Ter-Petrosyan as candidate in the
Armenian presidential election and party members opted to merge with Levon Ter-Petrosyan's led
Armenian National Congress
The Armenian National Congress ( hy, italic=yes, Հայ Ազգային Կոնգրես, translit=Hay Azgayin Kongres) is an Armenian political party led by former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and formed in 2008. Its direct predecessor was the P ...
party.
See also
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Civil Contract
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Programs of political parties in Armenia
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Politics of Armenia
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References
2007 establishments in Armenia
2008 disestablishments in Armenia
Defunct political parties in Armenia
Impeachment
Political parties disestablished in 2008
Political parties established in 2007
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