{"id":162917,"date":"2012-02-20T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=162917"},"modified":"2012-02-20T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T12:06:05","slug":"why-shouldnt-there-be-businessmen-in-parliament-asks-republican-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/20\/why-shouldnt-there-be-businessmen-in-parliament-asks-republican-mp.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Shouldn&#8217;t There be Businessmen in Parliament, Asks Republican MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Party of Armenia MP <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.am\/deputies.php?sel=details&amp;ID=930&amp;lang=eng\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Vardan Ayvazyan<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> doesn&#8217;t agree with the view that there shouldn&#8217;t be businessmen in Armenia&#8217;s National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why shouldn&#8217;t there be lawmakers who are [also] businessmen? Those MPs elected on the party-list basis work quite well. Why shouldn&#8217;t a businessman be in parliament? It&#8217;s just that he shouldn&#8217;t earn those revenues through his position [as a MP],&#8221; he said, addressing opposition parties&#8217; push for a 100% proportional representation system as they believe the majority seats are biased in favor of larger political groups and oligarchs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ayvazyan, all parties want to have businessmen on their party list, and in any case, eliminating the majority system altogether won&#8217;t exclude businessmen getting seats in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you have a system by which you can tell a party who it should remove from its list? It will give the first, second place on its proportional list to businessmen. It&#8217;s not as if those MPs who got into parliament on the proportional list were buried in their work,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Note, out of 131 parliamentary seats, 41 are elected by majority ballot and 90 by party-list proportional representation. In Armenia, citizens vote for individual candidates on the majority ballot, but vote for political parties on the proportional ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party of Armenia MP was convinced that his party will preserve its leading position in the upcoming parliamentary elections.<\/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>Republican Party of Armenia MP Vardan Ayvazyan doesn&#8217;t agree with the view that there shouldn&#8217;t be businessmen in Armenia&#8217;s National Assembly.<!-- 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":159399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162917"}],"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=162917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}