Hunger strike On January 21, 2013, Ghukasyan started a hunger strike in front of the
Armenian National Academy of Sciences building in
Yerevan. He had a large poster, written in Armenian and English demanding to "Stop fake elections". Finishing his protest after the results were announced, Ghukasyan, together with another opposition candidate, Raffi Hovhannisian, a US-born Armenian politician who is the founder of the
Heritage Party, filed an appeal with the Armenian Constitutional Court to dispute the results of the election (which gave incumbent
Serzh Sargsyan a second term).
Rise up, Armenia On July 16, 2015 he co-founded the Rise up, Armenia movement. It opposes
raising electricity tariffs and organizes rallies against raising electricity tariffs generally in
Republic Square. On August 21, 2015 he with other Rise up, Armenia members was apprehended during a rally, freed after several hours. He was arrested in July 2016, during the
2016 Yerevan hostage crisis.
Armenian Constructive Party In July 2018, Andrias Ghukasyan established the
Armenian Constructive Party. In May 2021, the Armenian Constructive Party joined the
Free Homeland Alliance to participate in
early parliamentary elections. ==References==