{"id":1777,"date":"2020-04-15T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2024-06-21T21:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T21:37:37","slug":"artsakh-vote-arayik-harutyunyan-is-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2020\/04\/15\/artsakh-vote-arayik-harutyunyan-is-elected-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Artsakh Vote: Arayik Harutyunyan is Elected President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/02\/IAS-Harutyunyan-with-wife-and-daughter-on-Apr.-14.-Courtesy-image-768x432.jpeg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/02\/IAS-Harutyunyan-with-wife-and-daughter-on-Apr.-14.-Courtesy-image-768x432.jpeg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Harutyunyan with wife and daughter on Apr. 14. 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Harutyunyan received the majority of votes after his main rival Masis Mayilian decided not to contest the run-off, citing the dangers of Covid-19 epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>The run-off was held two weeks after Harutyunyan and Mayilian came first and second, respectively, with 49 and 26 percent of the vote in the first round. Mayilian&#8217;s call for boycott and uncertainty about the spreading pandemic meant that less than half of eligible voters turn out to vote, compared to nearly three-quarters who turned out in the first round held on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>While criticizing the government for not postponing, Mayilian and other opposition challengers recognized Harutyunyan&#8217;s victory as legitimate. Harutyunyan also received congratulations from both the current and former leaders of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan and Serzh Sargsyan.<\/p>\n<p>Harutyunyan was born in Stepanakert in 1973. While a student at the Yerevan Institute of Economics in the early 1990s, Harutyunyan volunteered to fight in Nagorno Karabakh&#8217;s self defense between 1992 and 1994. Harutyunyan&#8217;s older brother, Samvel Harutyunyan was killed in combat.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, Harutyunyan graduated from the Economics Institute and Artsakh State University and worked as an assistant to NKR&#8217;s Minister of Finance Spartak Tevosyan (1994-97). Harutyunyan subsequently worked in local branches of Armenia&#8217;s ArmAgroBank (1997-2004), which was owned by businessman elected member of parliament Hakob Hakobyan; in 2003 Hakobyan sold the bank to ArdShinInvestBank.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Harutyunyan was elected to the NKR National Assembly through the Free Motherland Party, which he helped co-found the previous year and that along with the Democratic Party became the second &#8220;party of power&#8221; in Artsakh. Harutyunyan chaired the parliament&#8217;s budget committee.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, after the election of Bako Sahakyan as president, Harutyunyan was appointed NKR&#8217;s prime minister. In 2017, following constitutional changes and re-election of Sahakyan to third term, Harutyunyan was appointed state minister, a position equivalent to that of prime minister. In June 2018, following anti-government protests in Stepanakert, Sahakyan pledged not to run for another presidential term in 2020, while dismissing Harutyunyan as state minister.<\/p>\n<p>Concurrently with Harutyunyan&#8217;s election as president, his Free Motherland party won the parliamentary election, increasing its representation in parliament from 14 to 16 seats out of 33 total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":1778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus-on-karabakh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Artsakh Vote: Arayik Harutyunyan is Elected President<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2020\/04\/15\/artsakh-vote-arayik-harutyunyan-is-elected-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artsakh Vote: Arayik Harutyunyan is Elected President - 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