Artur Baghdasaryan
| Artur Baghdasarian | |
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| Speakers of the National Assembly | |
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In office June 12, 2003 – June 1, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Armen Khachatryan |
| Succeeded by | Tigran Torosyan |
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| Born |
November 8, 1968 Yerevan, |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University |
Artur Baghdasaryan (Armenian: Արթուր Վահանի Բաղդասարյան, born November 8, 1968) is a Republic of Armenia politician and former Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. He is the leader of the pro-government Armenian Renaissance party. He is married and has two children.
Baghdasaryan was born in Yerevan. In 1985 he finished the Khachatur Abovian Secondary School in Yerevan. In the same year, he entered the Law Faculty of Yerevan State University and graduated in 1992. He served in the army from 1988–1989.
In March 1998 he was elected the Chairman of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.
Although he was part of the governing coalition, in December 2005 Baghdasaryan alleged that "serious ballot stuffing" occurred during the November 2005 constitutional referendum. He stood as Rule of Law's candidate in the February 2008 presidential election and placed third with 17.7% of the vote according to final official results.
The Law and Order party, like second place candidate Levon Ter-Petrossian, criticized the 2008 election as being flawed, and it claimed that Baghdasaryan received more votes that he was given in the final results. Baghdasaryan, unlike some other members of his party, did not take part in the protests against the election led by Ter-Petrossian, however. On February 29, 2008, he announced that he had accepted the post of Secretary of the National Security Council in a planned coalition government, recognizing the legitimacy of the election and the victory of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan. Although the post of Secretary of the National Security Council has previously been considered primarily ceremonial, and the Council seldom met, Sargysan said that he intended for the Council to become more active during his presidency, giving Baghdasaryan the opportunity "to get fully involved in the governance of our country."
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