Matevosyan was a close ally of Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan. He is a participant of the first Karabakh war. He was a deputy of the Armenian parliament in 1995-1999. In the 2008 presidential election, Matevosyan served as one of the heads of Ter-Petrosyan’s election headquarters.
In 2008, Matevosyan was jailed for 3 years after the dispersal of mass protests in Armenia.
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