Armenian Renaissance (party)

Armenian Renaissance Հայկական վերածնունդ
Leader	Artur Baghdasaryan
Founded	1998 as Rule of Law, 2015 as Armenian Renaissance
Ideology	Centrism
Political position	Centre
European affiliation	European People's Party (observer)
International affiliation	Centrist Democrat International[1]
Colours	Blue
National Assembly of Armenia	6 / 131
Website
http://www.hvk.am
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Armenian Renaissance (Armenian: Հայկական վերածնունդ, Haykakan veratsnund, formerly Rule of Law (Armenian: Օրինաց երկիր, abbreviated as ՕԵԿ, OEK)), is a political party alliance in Armenia, led by Artur Baghdasaryan. Founded in 1998, as Rule of Law. It is the fourth largest party in the National Assembly of Armenia. In the 2007 Armenian parliamentary elections, it only obtained 9 seats in parliament, in contrast to 19 seats in the 2003 elections.

In the February 2008 presidential election, Baghdasarian was the party's candidate; he placed third with 17.7% of the vote according to final official results.^[2]

In 2014 party again becomes opposition.

In 2015 it is renamed to Armenian Renaissance. In it party alliance, merged also Unified Armenians Party, led by Ruben Avagyan.^[3]

Parliamentary elections
Year	Party-list			Constituency /total	Total seats	+/–
Votes	%	Seats /total
1999	56,807	5.3%	4 /56	2 /75	6 /131
2003	148,381	12.9%	12 /56	7 /75	19 /131	13
2007	95,324	7.1%	16 /90	0 /41	9 /131	10
2012	83,123	5.5%	5 /90	1 /41	5 /131	4

References

1. Centrist Democrat International
2. "RA CEC DECLARED SERGE SARGSIAN ARMENIA’S PRESIDENT", defacto.am, 25 February 2008.
3. "Unified Armenians" party merged into "Armenian Renaissance union"

External links

• Armenian Renaissance Official website