Ishkhan Saghtelyan

Ishkhan Vachiki Saghatelyan (; born May 6, 1982) is an Armenian politician who has served as a deputy in the National Assembly of Armenia from the opposition Armenia Alliance since August 2, 2021. He served as deputy speaker the National Assembly from August 6, 2021 until his removal from the position on July 2, 2022. He is the current chair of the Supreme Council of Armenia of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF).

He served as the governor of Gegharkunik Province from June 1, 2018, until October 3, 2018. Saghatelyan was the lead coordinator of the Homeland Salvation Movement, which led protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after the end of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Saghatelyan is one of the leaders of the Armenia Alliance, an electoral coalition between the ARF, ex-president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, and the newly established Reborn Armenia party. The coalition came in second in the 2021 Armenian parliamentary election held on June 20, 2021.

Biography Ishkhan Saghatelyan was born on May 6, 1982, in the village of Geghamavan in the former Sevan region of the Armenian SSR (now located in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia). In 1999, he graduated from Yerevan School No. 145, and in 2003 graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of Yerevan State University, where he also received his master's degree in 2005.

Although the Homeland Salvation Movement was opposed to participating in elections held under Prime Minister Pashinyan, on May 6, 2021, Saghatelyan announced that the ARF had formed an electoral alliance with the newly created Reborn Armenia party and the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, with the intention of participating in the snap parliamentary election in June 2021. Saghatelyan ran as the second candidate on the Armenia Alliance's electoral list, after Robert Kocharyan. He was put forward as the parliamentary opposition's candidate for deputy speaker of parliament and was elected on August 6, 2021, after two failed attempts. He was removed from this post on July 2, 2022, for repeated absences.