Pan-Armenian National Movement
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Pan-Armenian National Movement Հայոց Համազգային Շարժում | |
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| Abbreviation | ՀՀՇ |
| Leader | Ararat Zurabyan |
| Spokesperson | Alexander Arzumanyan |
| Founded | February 20, 1988 |
| Dissolved | February 23, 2013[1] |
| Succeeded by | Armenian National Congress |
| Headquarters | Yerevan |
| Membership | 10,000 (1996)[2] |
| Ideology | Liberal democracy Liberal nationalism[3] Anti-communism |
| Political position | Centre to center-right |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party |
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The Pan-Armenian National Movement or Armenian All-national Movement (Armenian: Հայոց Համազգային Շարժում, romanized: Hayots Hamazgain Sharzhum; HHS) was a political party in Armenia.
History[]
The party emerged from the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Council of 20 February 1988, to reunite with Soviet Armenia. Its first meetings, which demanded reunification, were held in Yerevan on 21 February 1988. Its ruling committee led by Igor Muradyan was organized in the same month, and Levon Ter-Petrossian was incorporated in the ruling body in May 1988. On 15 June 1988, under pressure and with representation of the movement in the Supreme Council (Armenia), this body adopted a resolution on reunification of two national units. PANM participated in the 1990 Armenian Supreme Soviet elections, gaining 59 seats in Parliament. The party eventually lost significance and all parliamentary representation when Ter-Petrossian resigned as president of the republic in 1998.
Pan-Armenian National Movement spearheaded the formation of Armenian National Congress, a diverse coalition of several Armenian opposition parties, headed by Levon Ter-Petrossian in opposition to the ruling governmental coalition headed by former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Since 2010, the party had been a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party).
The party participated in the 2012 Armenian parliamentary election and won just one seat in the National Assembly.
The party was last led by Aram Manukyan. The party officially dissolved in 2013.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Pan-Armenian National Movement renamed "Armenian National Congress" party". News.am. 23 February 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ^ Wessenlink, Egbert (1 March 1997). "Armenia: After the 1996 Presidential Elections". refworld.org. WRITENET. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021.
Despite its dominant position, in 1996 the ANM only had an estimated 10,000 members.
- ^ Harutyunyan, Arus (2009). Contesting National Identities in an Ethnically Homogeneous State: The Case of Armenian Democratization. Western Michigan University. p. 165.
External links[]
- Pan-Armenian National Movement Official website
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