{"id":114589,"date":"2011-07-19T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=114589"},"modified":"2011-07-19T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:50:20","slug":"if-no-orders-from-above-elections-wont-be-rigged-paskevichyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/19\/if-no-orders-from-above-elections-wont-be-rigged-paskevichyan.html","title":{"rendered":"If No Orders From Above, Elections Won&#8217;t be Rigged: Paskevichyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, publicist Tigran Paskevichyan (pictured) expressed confidence at a press conference in Yerevan today that the authorities will cave in and agree with the idea of holding pre-term elections.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters then asked him how sure the Armenian National Congress is that the authorities or the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) won&#8217;t rig the elections. &#8220;The government doesn&#8217;t remain the same. Karekin Azaryan was a man who at one time submitted to Robert Kocharian and now submits to Serzh Sargsyan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the authorities agree to pre-term elections, all administrative circles, the CEC, the mayors, never create a headache for themselves. If there&#8217;s no directive handed down to those commissions from up above, then they won&#8217;t do those things,&#8221; Paskevichyan said, adding that in the event of pre-term elections, the current authorities will lose their strength and the CEC won&#8217;t falsify the elections if it doesn&#8217;t receive a directive.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the authorities nor the public, however, is ready for pre-term elections, interjected chief editor of Azg daily Hakob Avetikiyan, also present at the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public at this time, unfortunately, doesn&#8217;t want to think about any elections,&#8221; he said.<\/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>Writer, publicist Tigran Paskevichyan expressed confidence at a press conference in Yerevan today that the&#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":68025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13906,29948,22145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114589"}],"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=114589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}