Anahit Yeghoyan: “Yerevan resident should participate in the governance of the capital”

“Yerevantsyner” bloc participates in extraordinary elections of Yerevan Council of Aldermen with 53 candidates. Anahit Yeghoyan, leader of the Armenian Homeland Party, is in the 4th place in the pre-election list.

Founded in 2005, the Armenian Homeland Party has been active in political processes since 2007, when Levon Ter-Petrosyan joined the presidential race. Ms. Yeghoyan recalls that their party was one of the first to join the popular movement. At that time, the party had more than 500 proxies in different polling stations. The presidential elections and all subsequent events, especially the events of March 1^st, also affected the party in the form of political persecutions. In the same year, Anahit Yeghoyan assumed the responsibilities of the party leader. She admits that it was conditioned not only by her active party activity, but also by being a woman.

“Although we were not represented in legislative and executive bodies, we managed to organize numerous meetings with the party, residents of different administrative areas of the city, hear their concerns, and try to find solutions to their concerns. Nevertheless, it is important for me that people in the border regions, especially women, are often found to have been deprived of the opportunity to work, “says A. Yeghoyan.

In the first days of the April war, in 2016, Anahit Yeghoyan created a group of “Armenian Women Volunteers” with more than 30 women. Assuming the role of commander of the detachment, they left for Talysh, the front line.

After the war Mrs. Yeghoyan’s activities were mainly focused on women’s employment in border areas. “It is important for women living in border areas to provide not one-time help, financial or other, but to create conditions for them to have a stable, long-term future, even for small income,” she says.

Lawyer Yeghoyan’s participation in the snap elections of Yerevan Council of Aldermen was by the decision of the Central Committee of the Party. In case of being included in the council, her focus will be on the problems of socially vulnerable families living in different administrative districts, especially for single mothers, whose voice is often unheard.

The “Yerevanians” bloc imagines Yerevan as a single organism. Moreover, they propose to turn Yerevan into an open joint stock company in which every resident of Yerevan can become a shareholder. Each one can identify and implement steps that can be taken to define its professional capabilities. Thus, ordinary Yerevan residents will take part in the Yerevan government, assuming very specific obligations.