Arpine Davoyan | |
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| Member of Parliament of the National Assembly of Armenia | |
| Assumed office December 2018 | |
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| Born | 28 August 1985 Stepanavan, Soviet Armenia |
| Alma mater | Vanadzor State University |
| Occupation | Psychologist, Politician |
Arpine Davoyan (born 28 August 1985,) is an Armenian psychologist and politician. She is a founding member of the Civil Contract party and a member of Parliament since 2018.
Born in Stepanavan, Soviet Armenia, Davoyan studied psychology at the Vanadzor State University, from which she graduated in 2009. [1] She is currently pursuing an master's degree in political sciences at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. [1]
After her graduation in 2009, she worked as a high school psychologist until 2014. [1] Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as an accountant in the private sector. [1]
In 2015 she was a founding member of the Civil Contract party. [1] She supported the Way Out Alliance as a clerk in the Armenian Parliament between 2017 and 2018. [1] In June 2018 she became as an assistant to Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia of the Civil Contract. In the Parliamentary elections of December 2018, she was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Civil Contract of the My Step Alliance. [1] In June 2019 she was elected as one of two women into the Board of the Civil Contract party. [2] In Parliament, she defended the view that a country is in need of a healthy efficient opposition, but denied the current opposition were assuming such a role in January 2021. [3]
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