National Unity () is a

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. It was founded and led by

Artashes Geghamyan Artashes Geghamyan (, ; 2 December 1949 – 20 September 2024) was an Armenian politician. Biography Geghamyan was born in Yerevan. He finished Chekhov Secondary School in 1966 and graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1971. He j ...

from 1997 until his death in 2024.

History

In the parliamentary election held on 25 May 2003, the party won 8.8% of the popular vote and 9 out of 131 seats in the

National Assembly of Armenia The National Assembly of Armenia (, ''Hayastani Hanrapetyut'yan Azgayin zhoghov'' or simply Ազգային ժողով, ԱԺ, ''Azgayin Zhoghov'', ''AZh''), also informally referred to as the Parliament of Armenia (խորհրդարան, ''khor ...

. In the 2003 presidential election, Geghamyan received 17.54% of the vote in the first round, but was eliminated prior to the second round of voting. In the 2007 parliamentary election, the party did not win any seats, receiving a popular vote of 3.69%. The party has not participated in any parliamentary elections since 2007. In the February 2008 presidential election, Geghamyan, running again as the National Unity Party's candidate, placed seventh with 0.46% of the vote according to final official results. Following the 2020–2021 Armenian protests, the party endorsed the "New Union" political alliance of the Voice of the Nation Party, the Towards Russia Party, and the Constitutional Rights Union. Geghamyan attended a meeting of the alliance. Geghamyan has also been very critical of Prime Minister

Nikol Pashinyan Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan (born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current Prime Minister of Armenia, prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in ...

, accusing the Prime Minister of being ruled by George Soros and

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interests.

Ideology

The party advocates for strengthening the Armenian economy, protecting minority rights, deepening

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while maintaining close relations with other

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members, especially with

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. The party also believes in keeping Armenia within the

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and the

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but also fostering deeper relations with the

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and

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. However, the party is against any NATO peacekeepers being deployed in Armenia. The party additionally believes in establishing peace with Armenia's neighbours and peacefully resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In May 2021, the party supported the idea of Armenia joining the Belarus-Russia

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History

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