In the long run, we would like to see Armenia develop stronger diplomatic relations with our Western allies and progress as a democratic nation within Eurasia. [265][266] In September 2018 Pashinyan proposed a 23% flat tax on all incomes and gradually decreasing it 0.5% per year to 20%. As of 2022, Nikol Pashinyan's net worth is $100,000 - $1M. Armenia is interested in unblocking regional communications and is ready to make relevant decisions at any time, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a meeting with Russian President . Victory or northing! He said that the U.S. "understands our situation and policy" and that good relations with the United States is also "very important" to Armenia. Nikol Pashinyan was mentioned on the 2019 top-10 list of world leaders with the most interactions on Facebook. [7][8] Pashinyan's victory had originally been heralded by some observers an improvement in democracy,[9] while others have criticized Pashinyan for just being a populist. [56] On 21 February, when Ter-Petrosyan's supporters set up tents at Freedom Square, Pashinyan declared the square to be the central headquarters of Ter-Petrosyan. [286] Following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Pashinyan signed a ceasefire agreement that returned Armenian-controlled territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to de facto Azerbaijani control, which led to protests and calls for his resignation by a number of prominent political figures. The PM highlighted the development of Armenian-Swedish inter-parliamentary and inter-governmental relations, including in economy, promotion of Armenia's democratic agenda and other directions. Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. Published on 26 October 2022 Author MassisPost The post has been shared by 4 people. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who was swept to power in pro-democracy protests in 2018, has triggered an early election to try to overcome criticism over his handling of last years conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Pashinyan and Haykakan Zhamanak expressed support for Ter-Petrosyan. Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan leaves for Sochi tomorrow and is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Pashinyan also invited Raisi to visit Yerevan for further negotiations. Its main rival is likely to be a grouping led by Robert Kocharyan, Armenias president from 1998. He was given a stricter punishment than the prosecutor demanded. All positive coverage was given to ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan's Pan-Armenian National Movement (HHSh), which the newspaper sympathized with. Lukashenko to Pashinyan: Sit down with Aliyev and make a decision, if you don't make it today, it will be worse 21:17 Bulgarian interim government urges to speed up transition to euro zone 21:08 President of Karabakh: It is necessary to unite all national potential and efforts 20:46 IMF: China's sharp and uncharacteristic economic slowdown will . He dismissed the protests led by Pashinyan as too small to be consequential. What can I say with proofs, that grandfather of Nikol Pashinyan was a nazi and worked for nazis during WW2. Pashinyan garnered 39% of the votes (4,650), while the pro-government candidate Ara Simonyan won some 59% (6,850). "Che Guevara fought against a totalitarian regime, while Gandhi was trying to gain independence from the country that invented parliamentarism. [249], Throughout his political career, Pashinyan has positioned himself as a post-ideological politician. President Putin announced Russia's first enlistment since WWII in September but the process was chaotic.. 01/11/2022 08:01 Al Jazeera. "[212] Virtually all traffic in Yerevan and on most highways in Armenia was stopped on 2 May by tens of thousands of people. "[107] After Pashinyan requested to be moved into solitary confinement for security reasons, the Prison officials agreed to his request a week later. "[62] He called the election an "attempt at a criminal coup d'etat" and claimed that Ter-Petrosyan had won in the first round. [145] In October 2014 he criticized the trio of ANC, Prosperous Armenia and Heritage parties for their alleged power-sharing deals with Serzh Sargsyan instead of forcing him to resign. [267] It was approved by parliament in June 2019 and came into force in 2020. [106]Armenian Justice Ministry and the Prison Officials disputed Pashinyans claims stating: "No injuries were detected as a result of the examination, while prisoners testified that there was no violence. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced Sunday that he will resign next month while staying in office until snap parliamentary elections due on June 20, as part of an effort to curb. [51] Following the election, Pashinyan held a two-day sit-in at Freedom Square to denounce the election results as rigged and demand the invalidation of its results. We want to enable Armenia's citizens to speak up against Serzh Sargsyan's and the Republican Party's perfidy. [216] He declared "I will serve the people of Armenia and the Republic of Armenia" immediately after the vote. [271], In April 2022, Pashinyan's Civil Contract party lost the mayor of Vanadzor election, winning only 25% of the votes while former Vanadzor Mayor Mamikon Aslanyan won 39% of the votes. The Armenian army called for his resignation and he then tried to sack the chief of staff, a decision blocked by the former Soviet republics president. "[34] Pashinyan did not show up to the police station. "[78], In late June 2009, Pashinyan declared that he had decided to come out of hiding after a general amnesty was declared by the government. YEREVAN, March 10. He said that the "people's candidate" should be elected prime minister by the Republican-led parliament. The Second Pashinyan government was sworn in on 14 January 2019. Tehran, Iran Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has held high-level talks in Tehran after a trilateral meeting with Russian and Azerbaijani leaders on fighting in the Caucasus region. embassy. [66], Although Ter-Petrosyan's camp disputed the election results, international observers deemed the election to be largely fair and democratic. Their meeting, broadcast live, lasted only three minutes and was described as "very tense." Baku and Yerevan agreed not to use force and to settle all disputes solely on the basis of recognition of mutual sovereignty and territorial integrity in a joint statement released following the Sochi meeting. "[141] In the post-election protests, Pashinyan joined Hovannisian at Freedom Square, where he called the latter the "elected president", claiming the elections were rigged by Sargsyan's government. He was expelled from the university before graduating. Take a closer look at the photo below. 4 individuals, including ex-NSS head and MP Artur Vanetsyan were arrested in connection to the purported attempt, but later released. [221], The day after his election as Prime Minister, Pashinyan traveled to Stepanakert to attend the Shushi Liberation Day and the Victory Day celebrations on his first official foreign visit in this position. During the 1998 Armenian presidential election, Pashinyan was a member of the election office of presidential candidate Ashot Bleyan, former Minister of Education and Science under president Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Police accused opposition activists of disrupting public order, while Pashinyan stated that Afyan "behaved like a street criminal." 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"[343] Former Chief of Armenian Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan wrote in an article directed at Pashinyan, "I know that you are the greatest master of cheap shows, and that you cover up the absolute inability to govern the state by feeding the society baseless emotional statements". A supporter of Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, he was highly critical of second president Robert Kocharyan, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and their allies, frequently referring to them as the "Karabakh Clan". We had talks about energy, agriculture, infrastructures and managing water resources, and we need to conclude the negotiations and seriously follow up on them, he said. [25], Pashinyan became engaged in journalism in 1992 as a journalism student at YSU. [100][101][102], Davit Shahnazaryan, ex-Minister of National Security, stated that it is a "lynch trial against a representative of the opposition. It led to clashes, where policemen beat members of the opposition with batons and used tear gas to disperse the crowd. [279] He also claimed that Artsakh has its own claims which are controlled by Azerbaijan, namely the Shahumyan region. He blamed the deaths of ten people on 1 March on Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, whom he claimed "ordered and organized the slaughter. Tehran says peace in the Caucasus is important but warns it will not tolerate a corridor sought by Baku and Ankara. Pashinyan updated Russian President Vladimir Putin about the elections and the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, where around 2,000 Russian peacekeepers have been deployed, in a phone call on Saturday, the Kremlin said. [288], Pashinyan has been described by political commentator Grigor Atanesian as a "Moscow-skeptic democrat," who has "championed an Armenia-centric approach, arguing that there's no place for pro-Russian or pro-Western political forces in the country. Pashinyan was a dedicated supporter of Ter-Petrosyan, who made a political comeback prior to the 2008 presidential election, before losing to Serzh Sargsyan. "[4], Pashinyan's Haykakan Zhamanak supported the normalization process that then-President Serzh Sargsyan and Turkish President Abdullah Gl initiated, however, he criticized the "government's way of pursuing it. [246][247], In November 2021, a criminal case was filed against Karabakh war veteran Manuel Manukyan for calling Pashinyan a "a cat on a trash can" in a Facebook post. "[5], On 9 May 2007, three days before the election, the Impeachment Union, along with the Hanrapetutyun Party and the New Times party, organized a march to the National Security Service building to demand the release of ex-foreign minister Alexander Arzumanyan, whom they considered a political prisoner. [139] Pashinyan was elected member of the National Assembly from the ANC, which barely passed the 7% threshold for electoral alliances and received 7 seats. [1][2][3] Pashinyan was also critical of Armenia's close relations with Russia, and promoted establishing closer relations with Turkey instead. He stated that Sargsyan should "feel besieged in Yerevan. He worked at the newspapers Dprutyun, Hayastan, Lragir, and Molorak. The statement said that "Tens of thousands of citizens were involved in the chain of vote bribe distribution and acceptance and there is an atmosphere of public tolerance towards that phenomenon, which is a time bomb planted under Armenian statehood." [25] His mother Svetlana died when he was 12 and he was mostly raised by his stepmother, Yerjanik, who was Vova's second wife. [10] Pashinyan has also been praised as a reformist. He stated at a meeting with Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan: "I believe that the format of the negotiations is flawed as long as one of the sides of the conflictthe Artsakh leadershipis not a part of the negotiations. He claimed that the recognition of the genocide is "not a matter of Armenian-Turkish relations", but instead is a "security issue for us and a matter of international security, and it is our contribution to the genocide prevention movement and process. Pashinyans visit to Tehran on Tuesday was also partly aimed at advancing this goal, with the Armenian leader saying much of the talks with Raisi dealt with improving economic and trade relations. Pashinyan told Biden the symbolic decision was a matter of security to Armenia after the six-week conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, in which Turkey backed Armenias neighbour Azerbaijan, where the ethnic Armenian-populated enclave is located. "[347], He was named one of the four crusaders keeping the dream of democracy alive in 2018 by Time magazine,[348][349] and Politician of the Year in 2018 by Vedomosti[350], After a few months of his premiership, Pashinyan was criticized for the inadequate revolutionary method reinforced with his allegedly authoritarian and divisive rhetoric which was resulted in repeated attacks on the rule of law and the Constitution. He led the Impeachment Union, an electoral bloc consisting of his political organization named "Alternative" and the Democratic Fatherland and Conservative parties, led by former HHSh MP Petros Makeyan and Mikayel Hayrapetyan, respectively. He urged people to maintain pressure on the Republican majority in parliament by blocking streets and highways, railroads, and the airports. [225], In a JulyAugust 2018 poll by the International Republican Institute Pashinyan was viewed favorably by 91% of respondents (and 8% unfavorably), while as prime minister, his work was rated favorably by 82% of respondents, while 17% rated it unfavorably. Washington, D.C. Today, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-06), Co-Chair of the Armenian Issues Caucus, led 48 members of Congress, in a letter calling on President Trump to meet with Armenia's newly elected Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, while he is in the United States for the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly in September. [275], However, after becoming prime minister, Pashinyan's position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict had been characterized as consistently hardline. He also blamed the government for "destabilizing the situation. Armenian society is badly polarized, with the incumbent prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and his main rival, former president Robert Kocharyan, exchanging threats and insults and engaging in populist and irredentist rhetoric. [290] In an April 2018 interview he stated, "Many now present me in the Western media as a pro-Western politician. He was the leader of the 2018 Armenian revolution which forced Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and his government to resign. "[140], After Ter-Petrosyan declined to be a presidential candidate, Pashinyan did not endorse any candidate. Our actions will be peaceful as long as all we have not exhausted all legal methods of struggle. "[69] Pashinyan denied provoking violence. [341][342] Matthew Bodner wrote in The New Republic: "His popularity was built on general populist sound bites. [38] Pashinyan "currently enjoys near-total support from a consolidated society," wrote Eduard Abrahamyan in May. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrived on Tuesday at the head of a high-ranking delegation at the invitation of Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi. "[281] Following the 2016 April War, Pashinyan stated that Armenia should not negotiate with Azerbaijan in any format that does not include a Karabakh Armenian (NKR) representative. [200][201] Pashinyan was released on 23 April following a meeting with Karen Karapetyan, the first deputy prime minister. : New initiative says it offers "alternative", "Campaign Violence: Radical opposition march leads to clash", "Police Blame Radical Opposition For Pre-Election Violence", "Monitoring of Campaign Finance of the 2007 and 2008 elections in Armenia", "Radical Opposition Opts For Court Action", "Opposition forces walk out of Constitutional Court", "Sarkisian's Victory In Presidential Election 'Inevitable', " - . Were also appointed to government roles 113 ] he called on Armenians demonstrate. 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