Edmon Marukyan

Edmon Marukyan
Էդմոն Մարուքյան
Member of the National Assembly of Armenia
In office 14 January 2019 – 10 May 2021
Parliamentary group	Bright Armenia (head of the parliamentary faction)
Constituency	Yerevan Districts Malatia-Sebastia, Shengavit
In office 18 May 2017 – 14 January 2019
Parliamentary group	Way Out Alliance
Constituency	Lori
In office 6 May 2012 – 18 May 2017
Parliamentary group	Independent
Constituency	Vanadzor
Personal details
Born	(1981-01-13) January 13, 1981 (age 43) Kirovakan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Bright Armenia
Other political affiliations	Way Out Alliance (2016–2018) Bright Alliance (2018)
Spouse	Tatevik Matinyan
Children	3
Residence(s)	Yerevan, Vanadzor
Alma mater	Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (LL.B.) Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia (LL.M.) University of Minnesota Law School (LL.M.)
Occupation	Lawyer Politician
Website	edmonmarukyan.com

Edmon Hrachiki Marukyan (Armenian: Էդմոն Հրաչիկի Մարուքյան) is an Armenian lawyer and politician, chairman of Bright Armenia party and Member of the Council of Reforms of the Constitution of Armenia since 2022. He was a member of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2012 to 2021. He was elected to parliament for the first time as an independent in May 2012.^[1] He founded the Bright Armenia Party in 2015 and has served as its chairman since.^[2] He was reelected to the National Assembly in April 2017, leading the electoral list of the Way Out Alliance, an electoral alliance between Bright Armenia, Civil Contract and the Hanrapetutyun Party. He was elected to parliament again in the 2018 parliamentary elections, leading Bright Armenia's electoral list. Marukyan left parliament after Bright Armenia failed to pass the electoral threshold in the 2021 snap elections. He was appointed ambassador-at-large by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in March 2022.^[3]