President of the National Assembly of Armenia

President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
ՀՀ Ազգային ժողովի նախագահ
Coat of Arms of Armenia
Incumbent Ararat Mirzoyan since 14 January 2019
Appointer	Elected by National Assembly
Term length	coincides with the term of the assembly
Inaugural holder	Avetik Sahakyan
Formation	1 August 1918
Website	http://parliament.am

The President of the National Assembly of Armenia (Armenian: Ազգային ժողովի նախագահ, Azgayin zhoghovi naxagah) is the Speaker of the House in the Parliament of Armenia. The incumbent speaker is Ararat Mirzoyan, since January 14, 2019.

Predecessors of the National Assembly of Armenia were the Parliament (August 1918 – December 1920), the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1990) and the Supreme Council of Armenia (1990–1995).

List of Speakers

Political Party

  ARF   PANM   Rule of Law   Republican  Civil Contract

First Republic of Armenia (1918–1920)

Speakers of the Parliament of the First Republic of Armenia

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)		Term of Office		Political Party
				Took Office	Left Office
style="background:Template:Armenian Revolutionary Federation/meta/color; color:white;" |1		Avetik Sahakyan (1863–1933)		1 August 1918	1 August 1919	ARF
style="background:Template:Armenian Revolutionary Federation/meta/color; color:white;" |2		Avetis Aharonyan (1866–1948)		1 August 1919	4 November 1920	ARF
style="background:Template:Armenian Revolutionary Federation/meta/color; color:white;" |3			Hovhannes Kajaznuni (1868–1938)	4 November 1920	2 December 1920	ARF

Armenia (1991–present)

Chairmen of the Supreme Council

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office		Political Party
			Took Office	Left Office
style="background:Template:Pan-Armenian National Movement/meta/color; color:white;" |1		Levon Ter-Petrosyan (born 1946)	4 August 1990	11 November 1991	PANM
style="background:Template:Pan-Armenian National Movement/meta/color; color:white;" |2		Babken Ararktsyan (born 1944)	24 December 1991	27 July 1995	PANM

President of the National Assembly of Armenia

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office		Political Party
			Took Office	Left Office
style="background:Template:Pan-Armenian National Movement/meta/color; color:white;" |1		Babken Ararktsyan (born 1944)	27 July 1995	4 February 1998	PANM
2		Khosrov Harutyunyan (born 1949)	4 February 1998	11 June 1999	Independent
3		Karen Demirchyan (1932 - 1999)	11 June 1999	27 October 1999	Independent
4		Armen Khachatryan (born 1957)	2 November 1999	12 June 2003	Independent
style="background:Template:Rule of Law (Armenia)/meta/color; color:white;" |5		Artur Baghdasaryan (born 1969)	12 June 2003	1 June 2006	Rule of Law
style="background:Template:Republican Party of Armenia/meta/color; color:white;" |6		Tigran Torosyan (born 1957)	1 June 2006	26 September 2008	Republican
style="background:Template:Armenian Revolutionary Federation/meta/color; color:white;" |—		Hrayr Karapetyan (acting) (born 1964)	26 September 2008	29 September 2008	ARF
style="background:Template:Republican Party of Armenia/meta/color; color:white;" |7		Hovik Abrahamyan (born 1959)	29 September 2008	21 November 2011	Republican
style="background:Template:Republican Party of Armenia/meta/color; color:white;" |8		Samvel Nikoyan (born 1957)	6 December 2011	31 May 2012	Republican
style="background:Template:Republican Party of Armenia/meta/color; color:white;" |9		Hovik Abrahamyan (born 1959)	31 May 2012	13 April 2014	Republican
style="background:Template:Republican Party of Armenia/meta/color; color:white;" |10		Galust Sahakyan (born 1949)	29 April 2014	18 May 2017	Republican
style="background:Template:Republican Party of Armenia/meta/color; color:white;" |11		Ara Babloyan (born 1947)	18 May 2017	14 January 2019	Republican
style="background:Template:Civil Contract/meta/color; color:white;" |12		Ararat Mirzoyan (born 1979)	14 January 2019		Civil Contract

See also

• National Assembly of Armenia
• Supreme Council of Armenia
• Prime Minister of Armenia
• President of Armenia