National Unity Party (Azgaian Miabanutiun Kusaktsutiun): Personality-Driven
Founded in 1997, the National Unity Party relies mostly on its leader, Aratshes Geghamian, a Soviet-era mayor of Yerevan and a charismatic public speaker. Criticism of the government's social welfare policies and to election fraud and reported official corruption drives much of its resonance among voters. The party claims to have some 25,000 members, including many supporters among intellectuals. It is believed to be among the best funded of the opposition parties, though pre-election opinion polls put its support ratings among voters at less than 7 percent.
Elections Presence: 72 individuals on the party list for election by proportional vote; 4 individual candidates in first-past-the-post districts. Slogan: NA Website: NA Address: 33a, Moskovian St., Yerevan Tel: (374-10) 53-36-32
