Gagik Tsarukyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Gagik Tsarukyan

Armenian wrestler and politician

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1956

Place of Birth: Arinj, Kotayk Region, Armenia

Profession: politician, entrepreneur

Nationality: Armenia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Gagik Tsarukyan

  • Gagik Tsarukyan (Armenian: ????? ?????????) is a former athlete and politician.
  • Also he was elected as a delegate in 2018.
  • He is seen as the most influential of Armenia's government-connected oligarchs, and a key business partner of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan. Tsarukyan is the founder and former leader of the Prosperous Armenia political party, with it gaining 15.1% of the vote in the 2007 Armenian parliamentary election.
  • In the ensuing 2012 Armenian parliamentary election, his party increased its share to 19.1% of the popular vote.
  • Announcing his departure from politics for a hiatus in February 2015, he announced his return to politics in January 2017, forming the parliamentary Tsarukyan Alliance, an electoral Alliance made up of Prosperous Armenia, the Alliance party and the Mission party.
  • During the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election, the Tsarukyan Alliance obtained 27.35% of the popular vote, becoming the second biggest parliamentary bloc in the Armenian Parliament with 31 MPs in the 105-member house of representatives, after the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (with 49.17% of the popular vote and 58 MPs).
  • Year latter during the 2018 Armenian parliamentary election, the Prosperous Armenia obtained 8.26% of the popular vote coming again second. An avid sportsman, he practiced boxing, wrestling and arm wrestling, becoming world champion in arm-wrestling in 1996 and winning the European championship in 1998.
  • Tsarukyan is also the president of Armenia's National Olympic Committee.
  • (was reelected on December 4, 2008).

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