{"id":100904,"date":"2011-05-31T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=100904"},"modified":"2011-05-31T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:22:31","slug":"vivacell-mts-general-manager-on-unofficial-electoral-list-among-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/31\/vivacell-mts-general-manager-on-unofficial-electoral-list-among-others.html","title":{"rendered":"VivaCell-MTS General Manager on Unofficial Electoral List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A non-partisan unofficial electoral list &#8220;with national mentality, a pure past and through the people&#8217;s vote&#8221; has been established and published on a closed group in Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook user by the name of Armen describes the process of electing candidates. &#8220;Any citizen of the Republic of Armenia (including Artsakh [the de-facto Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh]) proposes names of candidates and creates an electoral list; for example, comprised of 500 people. Voting takes place to isolate 20 people out of this 500, create the list and submit to the [upcoming] elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the group description, this initiative is led by youth who have neither political interests nor financial gain and who cannot be on the electoral list.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 60 candidates on the list, including former foreign minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan; MP Viktor Dallakyan; ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia) member, economist Alec Yenigomushian; singer Artur Meschyan; VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian; Armenia&#8217;s former ambassador to Canada Ara Papyan; former vice parliamentary chair of Armenia Karapet Rubinyan; writer Vahram Sahakyan; member of the Sardarapat civic movement Jirair Sefilian and others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: ArmeniaMobile.net<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-partisan unofficial electoral list &#8220;with national mentality, a pure past and through the people&#8217;s vote&#8221; has been established and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12664,27393,27392,20402,21601,27394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}