{"id":135386,"date":"2011-10-14T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=135386"},"modified":"2011-10-14T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:25:01","slug":"why-armenias-opposition-withdrew-its-call-for-early-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/14\/why-armenias-opposition-withdrew-its-call-for-early-elections.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Armenia&#8217;s Opposition Withdrew its Call for Early Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a big difference between calling for the resignation of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and calling for snap elections, said Pan-Armenian National Movement (HHSh) party leader, Armenian National Congress (HAK) representative Aram Manukyan, speaking to journalists today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The demand for early elections included negotiations and discussions \u2014 it was a bilateral process which fit in the process of dialogue. In short, it was a process in which the participating parties could have been the Armenian National Congress and the authorities. Immediate resignation [on the other hand] is a process that does not include negotiations or dialogue. In this case you are more tough \u2014 you only demand immediate resignation and that&#8217;s all. We withdrew from the idea of early elections for a very simple reason: we no longer want to negotiate with a government which refuses dialogue, which blocks roads, which imposes a strict blockade on free speech, Liberty Square and Yerevan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Aram Manukyan further said that the authorities&#8217; blockade and barricade, as well as intimidating people, during the HAK&#8217;s 8-day nonstop rallies was unprecedented.<\/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>There&#8217;s a big difference between calling for the resignation of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and calling for snap elections&#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":76225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11545,65942,16240,10340,27763,19754,23828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135386"}],"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=135386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}