07.05.2007 - Source: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Basic data on "People's Party" ("Political parties of the republic of Armenia participating in the national assembly elections 2007; Voters Guidebook") [ID 19805]

"1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Address of the head office: 59 Komitas, Yerevan

Telephone, fax: (+37410) 23-11-41

Foundation date: 15.02.1995

Charter and Program approval date: 15.02.1995

State registration date: 28.02.1995

State re-registration date: 01.12.2003

Number of party members at the time of completing questionnaire: 14520 members

2. GOVERNING BODIES AND THE LEADER OF THE PARTY

Congress

Political board: 61 members

Party President: Tigran Karapetyan

Chairman of the political board: Petros Katsakhyan

3. IDEOLOGICAL PLATFORM, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTY:
Party’s Goals and objectives include consolidation of national state, evolutionary development of economy based on public and private diversity, establishment of public principles according to the national profile."

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07.05.2007 - Source: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Basic data on "People's Party of Armenia" ("Political parties of the republic of Armenia participating in the national assembly elections 2007; Voters Guidebook") [ID 19807]

"1. GENERAL INFORMATION

Address of the head office: 7 Ghazar Parpeci St., Yerevan

Telephone, fax (+37410) 53-15-01, 53-65-01, 53-77-01

E-mail: nap_Armenia@yahoo.com

Web page: www.ppa.am

Foundation date: 23.05.1998

Charter and Program approval date: 28.02.1999

State registration date:15.05.1998

State re-registration date: 02.06.2001

Number of party members at the time of completing questionnaire: 30300 members

2. GOVERNING BODIES AND THE LEADER OF THE PARTY

Congress

Board: 105 members

Party president: Stepan Demirchyan

3. IDEOLOGICAL PLATFORM, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTY:
People’s Party of Armenia is a public, political organization (party) based on the ideology of democracy and people’s socialism, which implements its activities under RA Constitution and laws, and it is united by the principle of RA citizens’ volition.
Party’s ideology is a system of up-to-date, leading ideas and views on the development of society, which are based on the combination of national and human values, on the people’s patriotic feelings and desires, traditional disposition to social justice.
Principal values of the Party are national ideology, freedom of individual, democracy, justice and solidarity.
The Party is aimed to establish democratic and jural state based on the civil society and people’s real power, which will focus on each member of the society, who will serve in the people’s interests.
The Party directs its practical activities to establishment of society governed by the human values of social justice, dignity, legality and morality and considers it a guarantee of people’s welfare and national unification.
The Party has an objective to contribute to strengthening of Armenia’s statehood, economic and spiritual potentials, and people’s social protection, their comprehensive, harmonious development and prosperity.
The Party main goals and objectives are fixed in its program."

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27.06.2005 - Source: Council of Europe - Secretary General

Demonstration to greet People's Party members disrupted by police ("Reports from the Council of Europe Field Offices; May 2005 [SG/Inf(2005) 12]") [#34847],  [ID 15570]

"Armenia Liberty reported that the police disrupted a demonstration organised by a small group of people who came to greet Opposition leader Stepan Demirchyan and senior members of the People’s Party of Armenia on 16 May in the village of Goghtn near Yerevan."

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14.04.2004 - Source: EurasiaNet

Office of People's Party stormed by police after violent protests of 13 April ("Armenian Opposition Vows More Protests Despite Government Crackdown") [#21468],  [ID 15571]

"Government officials said 30 people were seriously injured when police charged about 2,000 opposition protesters in central Yerevan in the pre-dawn hours of April  13. Opposition sources asserted that hundreds of people were injured, adding that most avoided seeking medial treatment out of fear of government reprisals, including arrest. Eyewitnesses added that police appeared to target journalists covering the demonstration.

Armenian police said 115 people were detained during the April 13 melee, with over 70 being released within 24 hours. Authorities maintained that police officers were provoked into charging the demonstrators. Numerous eyewitnesses contradicted the official account, saying protestors never made a move to break through a cordon set up by police on Marshal Baghramian Avenue.

In the aftermath of the April 13 clash, police raided the offices of leading opposition movements – the National Unity Party (AMK), the Republic Party and the People’s Party of Armenia – reportedly arresting numerous activists on charges ranging from "disruption of public order" to an attempt to "seize power." Police also attempted to search the homes of several prominent opposition leaders. The police action prompted top opposition figures to go into hiding to avoid potential detention. Only Republic Party leader Aram Sarkisian remained underground on April 14.

Kocharian defended the unprecedented crackdown, saying through a spokesman that his opponents "endangered the country’s constitutional order," adding that the protesters "did not obey the legitimate orders of police officers."

Opposition leaders appeared undaunted by the government clampdown. Sarkisian, the Republic Party leader, indicated that the April police action had dashed any opportunity for dialogue between the opposition and Kocharian on reaching a political settlement. "He [Kocharian] has only made sure that he will be tried for all of his sins and there will be no more compromises," Sarkisian said.

The opposition characterizes Kocharian’s administration as illegitimate, insisting that the he rigged presidential and parliamentary elections in 2003. Sarkisian added that the opposition alliance planned to organize more rallies to press for Kocharian’s resignation. That stance was affirmed by People’s Party leader Stepan Demirchian, who proclaimed; "The will of our people [opposition supporters] has not been broken.""

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14.03.2004 - Source: International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights

People's Party member beaten up by unknown assailants; police raided party's office ("Violations of Political Rights in Armenia") [#21257],  [ID 15572]

"On 4 April, Aramayis Barseghian, a leading member of the Artarutyun alliance member People’s Party of Armenia (HZhK), was beaten up by unknown assailants outside his house in Artashat.

After the 12 April demonstration had been violently dissolved, police raided the headquarters of the Republic Party and the People’s Party, both members of the Artarutyun alliance, as well as of the National Unity Party (AMK), smashing office equipment and arresting dozens of activists. So far known are the arrests of Aleskan Karapetian (AMK deputy chair), Rouzan Khachatryan (press secretary of the People’s Party), MPs Vartan Mkkrtchian, Arshak Sadoyan and Shavarsh Kocharyan (Artarutyun alliance)."

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