Andrias Ghukasyan

Ghukasyan

Andrias Ghukasyan, sometimes Andreas, (Armenian: Անդրիաս Ղուկասյան) is an Armenian political analyst.

Ghukasyan was one of the seven candidates running in the 2013 presidential election.

He joined the presidential race on December 28, 2012.[1][2]

On January 21, 2013, Ghukasyan started a hunger strike in front of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences building in Yerevan.[3] He had a large poster, written in Armenian and English demanding to "Stop fake elections".[4] Finishing his protest after the official voting results were announced, Ghukasyan, together with another opposition candidate, Raffi Hovhannisian, a US-born prominent Armenian politician who is the founding leader of the Armenia-based Heritage Party, filed an appeal with the Armenian Constitutional Court to dispute the results of the election which gave incumbent Serzh Sargsyan a second term.

References

  1. ↑ "Political analyst Andreas Ghukasyan to run for president". ARMENPRESS. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Political expert Andrias Ghukasyan joins presidential race". PanARMENIAN.Net. 29 December 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Andrias Ghukasyan goes on hunger strike". Public Radio of Armenia. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Andrias Ghukasyan continues the hunger strike". Public Radio of Armenia. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2013.