{"id":138273,"date":"2011-11-01T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T06:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=138273"},"modified":"2011-11-01T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:09:12","slug":"republican-party-of-armenia-nominates-karen-karapetyans-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/01\/republican-party-of-armenia-nominates-karen-karapetyans-successor.html","title":{"rendered":"Republican Party of Armenia Nominates Karen Karapetyan&#8217;s Successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) board of directors adopted a decision at their meeting on Monday to nominate Taron Margaryan (pictured) as mayor of Yerevan. Since the majority of seats in the municipality&#8217;s Council of Aldermen (also known as the Council of Elders) belong to the ruling HHK, it is beyond doubt that Margaryan will be elected into the newly vacant position.<\/p>\n<p>According to the law, the Council of Elders must elect a mayor within a month&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>Note, during the term of Yerevan&#8217;s last two mayors, Karen Karapetyan and Gagik Beglaryan before him, Taron Margaryan occupied the position of deputy mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian capital&#8217;s most recent mayor, Karapetyan, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/28\/yerevan-mayor-karen-karapetyan-armenia-president-respected-my-decision-to-resign.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">announced his resignation<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> last week.<\/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>The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) board of directors adopted a decision at their meeting on Monday to nominate Taron Margaryan&#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":138236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,18335,12107,19791,12533,19753,10355,19759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138273"}],"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=138273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}