Pan-Armenian National Movement

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Pan-Armenian National Movement
Hayots Hamazgain Sharzhum

Հայոց Համազգային Շարժում (ՀՀՇ)
Leader Aram Manukyan
Founder Levon Ter-Petrossian
Founded 1989
Headquarters Yerevan
Ideology Liberal
International affiliation European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party

The Pan-Armenian National Movement or Armenian Allnational Movement (Armenian: Հայոց Համազգային Շարժում Hayots Hamazgain Sharzhum) is a political party representing Armenian national movement in Armenia. Presently without parliamentary representation.

It was founded by Levon Ter-Petrossian in 1989 and became the ruling party when it swept the 1990 elections. The party lost its majority when Ter-Petrossian resigned as president of the republic in 1998 and became an opposition party.

Pan-Armenian National Movement spearheaded the formation of Armenian National Congress, a wide opposition coalition of many opposition Armenian parties headed by Levon Ter-Petrossian in opposition to the current ruling governmental coalition headed by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan

Currently the party is led by Aram Manukyan. Since 2010 it is a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR).

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