Serzh Sargsyan

Serzh Sargsyan
Սերժ Սարգսյան
Official portrait, c. 2008–13
3rd President of Armenia
In office 9 April 2008 – 9 April 2018
Prime Minister	Tigran Sargsyan Hovik Abrahamyan Karen Karapetyan
Preceded by	Robert Kocharyan
Succeeded by	Armen Sarkissian
11th and 15th Prime Minister of Armenia
In office 17 April 2018 – 23 April 2018
President	Armen Sarkissian
Preceded by	Karen Karapetyan (Acting)
Succeeded by	Karen Karapetyan (Acting)
In office 4 April 2007 – 9 April 2008 Acting: 25 March 2007 – 4 April 2007
President	Robert Kocharyan
Preceded by	Andranik Margaryan
Succeeded by	Tigran Sargsyan
Minister of Defence
In office 20 May 2000 – 26 March 2007
Prime Minister	Andranik Margaryan
Preceded by	Vagharshak Harutiunyan
Succeeded by	Mikael Harutyunyan
In office 21 August 1993 – 17 May 1995
Prime Minister	Hrant Bagratyan
Preceded by	Vazgen Manukyan
Succeeded by	Vazgen Sargsyan
Minister of Interior and National Security
In office 4 November 1996 – 11 June 1999
Prime Minister	Armen Sarkissian Robert Kocharyan Armen Darbinyan
Preceded by	Vano Siradeghyan
Succeeded by	Suren Abrahamyan
Personal details
Born	Serzhik Azati Sargsyan (1954-06-30) 30 June 1954 (age 69) Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union
Political party	Communist Party (?–1988) Pan-Armenian National Movement (1989–?) Republican Party (2006–present)
Spouse	Rita Sargsyan ​ ​ (m. 1983; died 2020)​
Children	2
Residence	Dzoraghbyur
Alma mater	Yerevan State University
Signature
Website	www.serzhsargsyan.com/en
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Branch/service	Soviet Army Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army
Years of service	1972–1974 1989–1992
Battles/wars	First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Serzh Azati Sargsyan (Armenian: Սերժ Ազատի Սարգսյան, pronounced [sɛɾʒ sɑɾkʰəsˈjɑn]; born 30 June 1954)^[1] is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution.

He won the February 2008 presidential election with the backing of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, a party in which he serves as chairman,^[2] and took office in April 2008.^[3] On 18 February 2013, he was re-elected as president and served the entire term.

Despite pledging in 2014 not to become prime minister again while supporting an amendment of the constitution in 2015 that would allow it, Sargsyan was again elected prime minister in April 2018, in what opposition figures described as a "power grab".^[4] Six days after taking office, Sargsyan resigned after large-scale protests.^[5] Sargsyan is currently the leader of the Republican Party, which was the ruling party of Armenia from 1999 to 2018 and is currently represented in parliament as a part of the opposition I Have Honor Alliance.^[6]