Republican Party of Armenia
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The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA, Armenian: Հայաստանի Հանրապետական Կուսակցություն, ՀՀԿ; Hayastani Hanrapetakan Kusaktsutyun, HHK) is a national-conservative political party in Armenia led by the third president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan.
Republican Party of Armenia Հայաստանի Հանրապետական Կուսակցություն | |
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Leader | Serzh Sargsyan |
Spokesperson | Eduard Sharmazanov |
Deputy Leader | Vigen Sargsyan |
Founder | Ashot Navasardyan |
Founded | 2 April 1990 |
Split from | Union for National Self-Determination |
Preceded by | Army of Independence |
Headquarters | Yerevan |
Membership | 140,000 (claimed, 2008)[1] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Right-wing |
National affiliation | Homeland Salvation Movement (2020-2021) I Have Honor Alliance (2021) |
European affiliation | European People's Party (observer) |
International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
National Assembly[2] | 4 / 107 |
Website | |
hhk.am | |
It was the first political party in independent Armenia to be founded (April 2, 1990) and registered (May 14, 1991). It is the largest party of the right-wing in Armenia,[3] and claims to have had 140,000 members at its heyday.[1] It was the ruling party of Armenia from 1999 to 2018. After the latest parliamentary elections in June 2021, the party entered parliament as a part of the opposition I Have Honor Alliance.
The Economist magazine has described the RPA as a "typical post-Soviet 'party of power' mainly comprising senior government officials, civil servants, and wealthy business people dependent on government connections."[4] It has been described by political commentators as essentially lacking political ideology.[5][6]