{"id":156900,"date":"2012-01-27T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=156900"},"modified":"2012-01-27T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:51:00","slug":"those-participating-in-elections-cannot-call-themselves-opposition-sefilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/27\/those-participating-in-elections-cannot-call-themselves-opposition-sefilian.html","title":{"rendered":"Those Participating in Elections Cannot Call Themselves Opposition: Sefilian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sardarapat civic movement hasn&#8217;t changed its position \u2014 it won&#8217;t be participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections, said Jirair Sefilian, commander of the Shushi battalion during the Nagorno-Karabakh War and one of the founders of Sardarapat, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the country there&#8217;s a tyrant who dictates the rules. The elections are going to be buffoonery, and any political party or group participating in them shouldn&#8217;t have the right to consider itself opposition. Whoever participates in the elections only supports the authorities and their re-entry into office,&#8221; he said, adding that Sardarapat will run in the elections if the despotic government topples and a transitional government is formed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sefilian, a transitional government can be formed by youth engaged in spontaneous civic initiatives, who are fighting against specific forms of injustice.<\/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 Sardarapat civic movement hasn&#8217;t changed its position \u2014 it won&#8217;t be participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections, said Jirair Sefilian.<!-- 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":151998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20402,13977,12765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156900"}],"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=156900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}