{"id":141579,"date":"2011-11-14T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=141579"},"modified":"2011-11-14T17:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T13:59:35","slug":"death-of-kikos-is-fairy-tale-of-choice-in-armenian-politics-naira-zohrabyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/14\/death-of-kikos-is-fairy-tale-of-choice-in-armenian-politics-naira-zohrabyan.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Death of Kikos&#8217; Fairy Tale of Choice in Armenian Politics: Naira Zohrabyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosperous Armenia MP Naira Zohrabyan is frankly surprised that, in covering Sunday&#8217;s municipal elections in the northern Armenian city of Ijevan, the press is presenting exaggerated stories (on vote buying and the like), which she says are untrue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All that took place was the Ijevan mayoral election. And Ijevan residents with an advantage of 1,685 votes, gave its 5,044-strong vote of confidence to our party member. I am once again convinced that in not only Armenian mythology, but also Armenian politics, the most acceptable fairy tale is <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armeniaemb.org\/Kids\/ArmenianFairyTales\/Tales\/TheDeathofKikos.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Death of Kikos<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>As for the incidents that took place during elections, the MP said that every election implies a certain amount of tension.<\/p>\n<p>Zohrabyan said that regarding the incidents, police already explained that two men were called in for questioning on suspicion of vote buying; however, they were later released without charges. The MP asserted, she doesn&#8217;t even know on whose side the two men who were detained were.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, Prosperous Armenia candidate Vardan Ghalumyan won yesterday&#8217;s election, beating HHK-affiliated incumbent Varuzhan Nersisyan.<\/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>Prosperous Armenia MP Naira Zohrabyan is frankly surprised that, in covering Sunday&#8217;s municipal elections in the northern Armenian city of Ijevan&#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":141529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,34568,11888,10703,24852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141579"}],"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=141579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}