Edmon Marukyan
Edmon Marukyan 
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| Birthplace | Vanadzor |
| Birth date | 13 January 1981 |
| Lived in | Vanadzor, Yerevan, Moscow |
| Resides in | Yerevan |
| Profession | Lawyer, Politician |
| Affiliations | LHK |
| Languages | Armenian, Russian, English |
| Ethnicities | Armenian |
| Dialects | Eastern Armenian |
Edmon Marukyan (Armenian: Էդմոն Մարուքյան), is an Armenian lawyer, who was elected member of the National Assembly in May 2012 from the 30th electoral district, which includes the third largest city of Armenia, Vanadzor, and two nearby villages of Gugark and Shahumyan in Lori Province.[1] He was reelected to the National Assembly in April 2017, through the proportional list of the Way Out Alliance. He also serves as chairman of Bright Armenia.[2]
Early years and education[edit | edit source]
Edmon Marukyan was born on January 13, 1981 in Kirovakan, Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union. He attended School #6 of his home town Vanadzor, then served in the Armenian Army.[3]
Marukyan graduated from the Moscow Institute of Commerce and Law in 2002 with a Bachelor of Law degree. In 2006 he received qualification of a Specialist for the Protection of Human Rights and Interests in the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw. In 2007 he has graduated from the Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia with a Master of Law degree. Three years later, in 2010, Marukyan received an LL.M. studying Human Rights and International Law at the University of Minnesota Law School[4][5] as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow.
Along with legal education, Marukyan participated in numerous specialized advocacy and Human Rights training courses in Armenia, Poland, Hungary, the US, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Germany, and Russia.[4]
Career[edit | edit source]
Since 2001, Marukyan has been actively involved in human rights activism in Armenia. He has been the head of several non-government human rights organizations.[3] From 2007 to 2008 he lectured Philosophy and Political Science at the Vanadzor State University. Since 2008 Marukyan has been a member of the Chamber of Advocates of Armenia. He is also author of articles and reports on human rights in Armenia.[4] Since 2001, he has specialized in the protection of human rights and has been considerably involved in the strengthening of democracy and civil society in Armenia. In 2008 Marukyan became the chairman of the “Center for Strategic Litigations” Human Rights NGO. In 2005, as a human rights NGO representative, he became an observer at the Public Monitoring Group, observing the rights of persons taken into custody at criminal-executive institutions within Armenia. He has provided legal consultation to a number of projects, defended citizens in court hearings, conducted strategic litigations taking cases up to the European Court of Human Rights.
Political career[edit | edit source]
2012 election[edit | edit source]
| Edmon Marukyan | non-partisan | 11,689 | 34.2% |
| Viktor Dallakyan | Republican | 9,271 | 27.1% |
| Zohrab Torosyan | ARF | 5,272 | 15.4% |
| Ashot Manukyan | ANC | 3,501 | 10.3% |
| Garnik Sahakyan | Heritage | 2,394 | 7.1% |
| 34,166 | 100% | ||
| 60,859 | 56.1% | ||
The 2012 parliamentary election was held on May 6. The official campaign started a month earlier, during which Marukyan said he walked from neighborhood to neighborhood. He defeated Republican Viktor Dallakyan, which was an independent candidate for past 4 elections and became a member of the ruling party just months prior to the election.[8]
Armenian media widely responded to his election, calling him the "Bright Spot",[9] "Kinder Surprise" of the May 6th election.[10]
On May 8, 2012, just two days after the election Marukyan announced that he will not join any fraction.[11]
2017 election[edit | edit source]
In the 2017 parliamentary election, Marukyan led the proportional list of the Way Out Alliance, which won 9 seats out of 105 in National Assembly in the 2017 parliamentary election, becoming the 3rd political power out of 4 entering the RA National Assembly.
In addition to his committee assignments, Marukyan has been a member of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2017. As part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group, he serves on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination.[12]
Personal life[edit | edit source]
Marukyan is married and has two children. He is fluent in Armenian, English and Russian.[3]
In 2017, the German magazine treffpunkteuropa.de mentioned Marukyan as one of the most promising political figures for 2018.[13]
References[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ Thomas Grove (May 8, 2018), Armenian Protest Leader Takes Power Under Russia’s Shadow Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Կենսագրական (Biography)" (in hy). Official Website of Edmon Marukyan.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Edmon Marukyan". Official Website of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. http://parliament.am/deputies.php?sel=details&ID=1029&lang=eng. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
- ↑ LL.M. and Humphrey Fellow Alumnus Edmon Marukyan Wins Armenian National Assembly Election Template:Webarchive, University of Minnesota Law School, Fall 2012, Accessed March 18, 2013.
- ↑ "TEC 30". Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia. http://www.elections.am/majoritarian/election-24103/district-30/. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- ↑ "Independent Marukyan beats Dallakyan in election district 30". Hetq Online. http://www.armtown.com/news/en/htq/20120507/14146/. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
- ↑ Մաքուր մարդիկ ՀՀԿ-ին պետք չեն - Հրապարակ
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- ↑ Edmon Marukyan Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
- ↑ https://news.am/eng/news/430052.html