Shamiram (party)

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Shamiram
Շամիրամ
Party leader Gajane Zarukhanyan
founding 1995
resolution 2008
Alignment feminism
Parliament seats
0/132

Shamiram ( Armenian Շամիրամ ) was a party in Armenia which only admitted women as members and stood up for women's rights. In the parliamentary elections in Armenia in 1995 , it became the second largest group with eight members. The party leader was the well-known singer Gajane Saruchanjan. In all subsequent parliamentary elections, the party could no longer win a mandate and later disbanded.

history

The party name Shamiram refers to the ancient queen Semiramis , who plays an important role in Armenian historiography. Since the party was founded only a few months before the parliamentary elections in Armenia in 1995 and was able to form the second largest parliamentary group in the National Assembly with eight members , rumors about its formation and composition were widespread. The rumor that it was only a pretend party came up because it was evident from several representatives that they were the wives, partners and close relatives of politicians and intellectuals of the ruling Armenian All-National Movement (HHS). The party was therefore not perceived in public as a serious political actor and viewed as an installation (of parts) of the HHS.

In the parliamentary elections in Armenia in 1999 , the party only received 0.2% of the vote and was therefore no longer able to enter parliament. It has remained politically insignificant since then and dissolved in the 2000s.

Member of the National Assembly

All MPs had a mandate from 1995 to 1999:

  • Zarihi Avchatyan
  • Angela Bakunz
  • Juliet Kaschoyan
  • Shogher Matewosjan
  • Amalia Petrosian
  • Nadezhda Sargsyan
  • Gajane Zarukhanyan
  • Nana Togoshvili

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sunday, December 09, 2018 Parliamentary Elections. In: elections.am. Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Nora Dudwick: Women in independant Armenia . In: Post-Soviet Women. From the Baltic to Central Asia (Ed. Mary Buckley), Cambridge 1997, pp. 244-245.
  3. ↑ parliament.am , website of the National Assembly (accessed March 11, 2020)