{"id":162230,"date":"2012-02-17T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T07:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=162230"},"modified":"2012-02-17T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T07:44:16","slug":"parliamentary-opposition-pushes-for-a-vote-on-proportional-representation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/17\/parliamentary-opposition-pushes-for-a-vote-on-proportional-representation-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Opposition Pushes for a Vote on Proportional Representation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though first the government, then the National Assembly Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs rejected a bill proposing to hold the upcoming parliamentary elections only on the party-list basis, parliamentary opposition parties Heritage and Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, ARF-D) will be putting this bill to a vote in the National Assembly on Feb. 28, reports local daily Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun (&#8220;Fourth Self-Authority&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>According to law, if a parliamentary standing committee doesn&#8217;t wish to include a particular issue on the parliament&#8217;s agenda (in other words, turning it down), parliamentary factions can recognize the issue as urgent and raise it for discussion in the second day of parliament&#8217;s four-day sitting and then put it to a vote.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the existing Electoral Code stipulates that 90 of the 131 parliament seats are to be contested under the system of proportional representation (the party-list basis). The remaining 41 deputies are elected in single-seat constituencies across the country. The opposition is proposing that all seats be contested under the system of proportional representation.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the paper, the parliamentary opposition is prepared to go this route and on the day the issue will be discussed political groups will organize a protest outside the parliament building, which aims to increase public pressure on the bill and point out that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia led by the president is opposing a public demand.<\/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>Though first the government, then the National Assembly Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs rejected a bill proposing to hold the upcoming&#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":162183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14877,16268,11606,12075,37124,15891,38274,38172,36291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162230"}],"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=162230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}