Republican Party of Armenia
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Republican Party of Armenia Հայաստանի Հանրապետական Կուսակցութուն Hajastani Hanrapetakan Kusakzutjun |
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| Party leader | Serzh Sargsyan |
| founding | April 2, 1990 |
| Alignment | National conservatism |
| Parliament seats |
0/132 |
| European party | European People's Party (EPP) (observer since 2012) |
| Website | hhk.am (arm., engl., russ.) |
The Republican Party of Armenia ( Armenian Հայաստանի Հանրապետական Կուսակցութուն Hajastani Hanrapetakan Kusakzutjun in scientific transliteration Hayastani Hanrapetakan Kowsakc'owt'yown , abbreviation or ՀՀԿ HHK) is one of the major parties in Armenia and introduced a long time the government.
history
The party sees itself in the tradition of the National United Party , which operated underground in the Armenian SSR from 1967 to 1987. The HHK was founded in 1988 or on April 2, 1990 , but was not officially registered as a party until May 14, 1991 . Only in the course of perestroika was it officially allowed to found parties. Many of the founding members of the HHK fought in paramilitary organizations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict , including under the party's banner.
At the end of 1994, the opposition made the party share responsibility for the government through its membership in the Republic Bloc led by the Armenian All-National Movement . From the time the party was founded and until his death in 1997 , the party was led by Ashot Navasardyan . In 1999 the HHK took over the government and initially appointed Wasken Sarkissjan as the prime minister. After his murder on October 27, 1999, his brother Aram Sarkissjan took over this office in November, before Andranik Markarjan succeeded him in the Prime Minister's office. The party formed an electoral alliance with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Land of Law party in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in Armenia in 2003 and thus won a large majority of the parliamentary seats. Prime Minister Markarjan died in 2007 while still in office.
Until the 2006 party congress, the HHK described itself as a nationalist party, and since then as a national conservative party. For a long time since the elections for the third National Assembly in 2003, it has been the strongest parliamentary group, but fell massively in the parliamentary elections in Armenia in 2018 and ended up just below the 5% hurdle.
Party leader
| Surname | Term of office | |
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| Ashot Navasardyan | 1990-1997 | |
| Andranik Markarjan | 1997-2007 | |
| Serzh Sargsyan | since 2007 | |
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activities
In May 2016, on the direct initiative of the Republican Party, a monument in honor of Garegin Nschdeh was erected in the center of the capital Yerevan . Today he is celebrated as the "hero of the Armenian nation". As party chairman and president, Sargsyan personally attended the inauguration ceremony of the statue and paid tribute to the “merits of the great statesman”. Nschdeh was however verifiably a Nazi collaborator and war criminal during World War II . The case caused serious resentment between Armenia and the Russian Federation . In a comprehensive report by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the “glorification of fascism and all manifestations of neo-Nazism ” from May 2019, the former leadership of the Republican Party is heavily criticized for its relevant policies. In November 2017, Weronika Kraschennikova, a prominent Russian historian, political scientist and member of the Social Chamber of the Russian Federation denounced the Republican Party's glorification of Nazi sympathizers and compared the party's coat of arms with that of the Third Reich .
Election results
| choice | be right | % | Seats | rank | position | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 329,000 | 43.9 |
4/190 88/190 |
1. | Government coalition (electoral alliance with the Armenian All-National Movement , Democratic-Liberal Party of Armenia and Christian-Democratic Union ) |
Nohlen, Grotz, Hartmann (2001) |
| 1999 | 448.133 | 41.69 |
24/131 62/131 |
1. | Government (electoral alliance with the Armenian People's Party and People's Democratic Party ) | mediamax.am |
| 2003 | 278.712 | 23.66 |
33/131 |
1. | government | electionguide.org |
| 2007 | 458.258 | 34.26 |
64/131 |
1. | government | electionguide.org |
| 2012 | 664.440 | 44.02 |
70/131 |
1. | government | Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia |
| 2017 | 771.247 | 49.17 |
58/105 |
1. | government | Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia |
| 2018 | 59,083 | 4.7 |
0/132 |
4th | extra-parliamentary opposition | Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia |
See also
Web links
Official website (Armenian, English, Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hhk.am/en/board/ (accessed April 19, 2019)
- ↑ osce.org ( accessed November 30, 2019)
- ↑ a b c Sunday, December 09, 2018 Parliamentary Elections. In: elections.am. Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
- ↑ epp.eu ( accessed December 1, 2012)
- ↑ a b c d https://web.archive.org/web/20151222133232/https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04YEREVAN1678_a.html
- ↑ Памятник деятелю национально-освободительного движения Гарегину Нжде открыли в Ереване. In: Newsarmenia. May 28, 2016, Retrieved November 11, 2019 (Russian).
- ↑ О ситуации с героизацией нацизма, распространении неонацизма и других видов практики, которые способствуют эскалации современных форм расизма, расовой дискриминации, ксенофобии и связанной с ними нетерпимости. May 6, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 (Russian).
- ↑ Крашенинникова сравнила герб правящей партии Армении с символикой нацисткой Германии. In: Rusarminfo. November 20, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2019 (Russian).
- ↑ D. Nohlen; F. Grotz; C. Hartmann: Elections in Asia. A Data Handbook , Vol. 1, 2001, p. 335
- ↑ https://mediamax.am/en/news/Elections/4633/
- ↑ http://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/1370/
- ↑ http://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/1474/
- ↑ http://res.elections.am/images/doc/060512v.pdf
- ↑ http://res.elections.am/images/doc/resulteng02.04.17.xlsx