Yerevan ex-mayor Hayk Marutyan unanimously elected New Power party chairman

Hayk Marutyan, the former mayor of Yerevan, was unanimously elected, with 383 votes in favor, as Chairman of the New Power party during its inaugural congress Wednesday.

In his remarks after the respective voting, Marutyan stated as follows, in particular: "Thank you for coming to take part in building the future of Armenia, solving Armenia's problems, solution to get out of this crisis. You believe that it is possible to get out of this situation. This is not the end.

We cannot do nothing, just sit and watch how our state is destroyed. We will wake up our people from slumber and lead our people. We are going to make a breakthrough in all of this.

Long live the Republic of Armenia, long live the Armenian people!"

After the 2018 "velvet revolution" in Armenia, Hayk Marutyan was elected mayor of Yerevan on the electoral list of the ruling Civil Contract Party, but in December 2021 he was removed from office by his political team. The ruling political team had explained the process of expressing no confidence in Marutyan by a political split with him.

And on February 7 of this year, the Yerevan Council of Elders terminated, on the grounds of absenteeism, the Council membership of Marutyan, who had become a Council member from the electoral list of the National Progress Party.

The ideological base of the New Power party is social reformism.