Edmon Marukyan
Edmon Hrachiki Marukyan (Armenian: Էդմոն Հրաչիկի Մարուքյան) is an Armenian lawyer and politician currently serving as ambassador-at-large of Armenia. He was a member of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2012 to 2021. He was elected to parliament for the first time as an independent in May 2012. He founded the Bright Armenia Party in 2015 and has served as its chairman since. He was reelected to the National Assembly in April 2017, leading the electoral list of the Way Out Alliance, an electoral alliance between Bright Armenia, Civil Contract and the Hanrapetutyun Party. He was elected to parliament again in the 2018 parliamentary elections, leading Bright Armenia's electoral list. Marukyan left parliament after Bright Armenia failed to pass the electoral threshold in the 2021 snap elections. He was appointed ambassador-at-large by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in March 2022.
Edmon Marukyan | |
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| Էդմոն Մարուքյան | |
| Member of the National Assembly of Armenia | |
| In office 14 January 2019 – 10 May 2021 | |
| Parliamentary group | Bright Armenia (head of the parliamentary faction) |
| Constituency | Yerevan Districts Malatia-Sebastia, Shengavit |
| In office 18 May 2017 – 14 January 2019 | |
| Parliamentary group | Way Out Alliance |
| Constituency | Lori |
| In office 6 May 2012 – 18 May 2017 | |
| Parliamentary group | Independent |
| Constituency | Vanadzor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 13, 1981 Kirovakan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Bright Armenia |
| Other political affiliations | Way Out Alliance (2016–2018) Bright Alliance (2018) |
| Spouse | Tatevik Matinyan |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence(s) | Yerevan, Vanadzor |
| Alma mater | Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (LL.B.) Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia (LL.M.) University of Minnesota Law School (LL.M.) |
| Occupation | Lawyer Politician |
| Website | edmonmarukyan |