Английская Википедия:Andrias Ghukasyan

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Armenian political analyst Andrias Ghukasyan

Andrias Marati Ghukasyan (Шаблон:Lang-hy) is an Armenian political analyst.

Ghukasyan was one of seven candidates in the 2013 presidential election.[1][2]

Early life

In 1987, he finished secondary school at N83. In the same year he entered the Yerevan State University Department of Economics. From 1988 to 1989, he served in the Soviet Army. In 1994, he graduated from Yerevan State University 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 building in Yerevan.[3] He had a large poster, written in Armenian and English demanding to "Stop fake elections".[4] 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 Шаблон:Webarchive with the Armenian Constitutional Court to dispute the results of the election (which gave incumbent Serzh Sargsyan a second term).

Rise up, Armenia

On July 16, 2015 he co-founded the Rise up, Armenia movement.[5][6] 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,[7] freed after several hours.[8]

He was arrested in July 2016, during the 2016 Yerevan hostage crisis.

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.[9]

References

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