Career
Ghukasyan was one of the seven candidates running in the 2013 presidential election. He joined the presidential race on December 28, 2012. 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 official voting results were announced, Ghukasyan, together with another opposition candidate, Raffi Hovhannisian, a United States-born prominent Armenian politician who is the founding leader of the Armenia-based 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. In July 16, 2015 he was co-funded movement, it is movement who opposes raising electricity tarrifes and organizes rallies against raising electricity tarrifes generally in Republic Square.
In August 21, 2015 he with other members was apprehended during rally, but several hours after freed.