Edmon Marukyan

Edmon Marukyan (Armenian: Էդմոն Մարուքյան), is an Armenian lawyer, Member of National Assembly, elected three times. First time 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] as an Independent politician. He was reelected to the National Assembly in April 2017, leading the proportional list of the Way Out Alliance. The third time he was elected in December 2018 leading Bright Armenia party proportional list. He also serves as chairman of Bright Armenia.[2]

Edmon Marukyan
Էդմոն Մարուքյան
Member of the National Assembly of Armenia
Assumed office
14 January 2019
Parliamentary groupBright Armenia
ConstituencyYerevan Districts Malatia-Sebastia, Shengavit
In office
18 May 2017 – 14 January 2019
Parliamentary groupWay Out Alliance
ConstituencyLori
In office
6 May 2012 – 18 May 2017
Parliamentary groupIndependent
ConstituencyVanadzor
Personal details
Born (1981-01-13) January 13, 1981
Kirovakan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityArmenian
Political partyBright Armenia
Other political
affiliations		Way Out Alliance (2016–2018)
Bright Alliance(2018)
Children3
ResidenceYerevan, Vanadzor
Alma materPlekhanov Russian University of Economics (LL.B.)
Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia (LL.M.)
University of Minnesota Law School (LL.M.)
OccupationLawyer
Politician
Websiteedmonmarukyan.com

Early life and education

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

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

2012 election
30th district results[6][7]
Name
Party
Votes
%
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%
TOTAL
 34,166 100%
Turnout
 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 faction.[11]

2017 election

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]

2018 election

In the 2018 parliamentary election, Marukyan led the proportional list of the Bright Armenia party which came up third and won 18 seats out of 132 in National Assembly.

Personal life

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
  1. Naira Buldagharyan; Narine Ghalechyan (18 May 2012). "Մարուքյանին որեւէ ուժ չի սատարել (No party has supported Marukyan)" (in Armenian). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. External link in |title= (help)
  2. Thomas Grove (May 8, 2018), Armenian Protest Leader Takes Power Under Russia’s Shadow Wall Street Journal.
  3. "Կենսագրական (Biography)" (in Armenian). Official Website of Edmon Marukyan. External link in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. "Edmon Marukyan". Official Website of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  5. LL.M. and Humphrey Fellow Alumnus Edmon Marukyan Wins Armenian National Assembly Election Archived 2014-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, University of Minnesota Law School, Fall 2012, Accessed March 18, 2013.
  6. "TEC 30". Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  7. "Independent Marukyan beats Dallakyan in election district 30". Hetq Online. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  8. Մաքուր մարդիկ ՀՀԿ-ին պետք չեն - Հրապարակ
  9. "The Bright Spot of Election". lragir.am. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  10. "Վանաձորցի Էդմոն Մարուքյանը հավակնում է դառնալ ԱԺ ընտրությունների "քինդեր սյուրպրիզը" (Edmom Marukyan of Vanadzor is likely to be the "Kinder Surprise" of the election)". tert.am. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  11. Balasanyan, Grisha (8 May 2012). "Նորընտիր պատգամավոր Էդմոն Մարուքյանը բացառում է կուսակցական դառնալը (Newly elected deputy excludes the possibility of joining any party)" (in Armenian). Hetq Online. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  12. Edmon Marukyan Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
  13. https://news.am/eng/news/430052.html
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