Today, June 1, is Nikol Pashinyan's birthday. The RA Prime Minister is celebrating his 51st birthday. He was born in 1975. on June 1, in the city of Ijevan. Graduated from Ijevan secondary school No. 1.
1991-95 studied at Yerevan State University. In his fifth year of graduation, he was expelled from YSU due to political reasons. Since 1992, he has been engaged in active journalism.
He worked in "Dprutyun", "Hayastan", "Lagir", "Lagir Or", "Molorak" newspapers. In 1998, he founded the "Oragir" daily newspaper, which in 1999 was closed by a court order for political reasons. In 1999, he was appointed the editor-in-chief of "Haykakan Zhamanak" daily, and held that position until 2012. In August 1999, he was sentenced to one year in prison for political reasons.
Later, at the request of the international and Armenian journalistic community, the appellate court postponed the execution of imprisonment for one year, as a result of which the imprisonment was not carried out. In 2006, he was a founding member of the "Alternative" social-political initiative.
In the parliamentary elections of 2007, he was number one on the proportional list of the "Impeachment" bloc, in 2008 in the presidential elections, a member of the pre-election headquarters of RA presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan. After March 1, 2008, being wanted, he spent one year and four months underground.
2009 On July 1, he voluntarily presented himself to the RA General Prosecutor's Office, where he was arrested and released in 2010. In January, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison, in 2008. on the charge of organizing mass riots on March 1. He was widely recognized by Armenia and the international community as a political prisoner, a prisoner of conscience. After spending one year and 11 months in prison, he was released in 2011. on May 27, with the decision of amnesty.
In the parliamentary elections of 2012, he was elected a member of the National Assembly on the proportional list of the "Armenian National Congress" bloc.
2012-13 He was the chairman of the NA ethics committee in 2013. founded the "Civil Contract" public-political union. 2013-2015 was a member of the management board of that union, from 2015, a member of the board of the party of the same name formed on the basis of the union. In May, he was the commander of the volunteer squad of the "Civil Agreement" party. In 2017 In the April 2 NA elections, he was elected as a deputy of the National Assembly from the electoral district number 4, which includes Yerevan's Kentron, Erebuni, Nork-Marash and Nubarashen administrative districts, on the electoral list of the "ELK" alliance.
2017 Since May, head of the "ELK" parliamentary faction. In 2018. On March 31, the "My Step" movement started from Vardanants Square in Gyumri, which led to a non-violent, velvet, people's revolution in April-May of the same year. On May 8, the Prime Minister of Armenia was elected by the National Assembly at the request of the Pan-Popular Movement.
2018 on October 16, according to the pre-election promise, he submitted his resignation in order to hold extraordinary elections, fulfilling the duty of acting prime minister.
On December 9, 2018, in the extraordinary elections of the National Assembly, he headed the proportional list of the pre-election bloc "My step" and was the candidate for the prime minister of the bloc. In the elections, the bloc received the vote of confidence of around 70 percent of the voters.
Due to this fact, in accordance with Article 149, Part 1 of the Constitution and in accordance with Article 89 of the Constitution in 2019. appointed Prime Minister of RA on January 14. 2021 On April 25, in order to resolve the internal political situation in the country and overcome it through parliamentary elections, he submitted his resignation, fulfilling the duty of the acting prime minister.
In the extraordinary elections of the National Assembly on June 20, 2021, he headed the pre-election proportional list of the "Civil Contract" party and was the party's candidate for prime minister. In the elections, the party received the vote of confidence of 53.91 percent of the voters.
According to part 1 of Article 149 of the Constitution in 2021 He was appointed the Prime Minister of RA on August 2. He has three daughters and one son.
