{"id":167288,"date":"2012-03-07T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=167288"},"modified":"2012-03-07T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:55:43","slug":"paruyr-hayrikyans-union-for-self-determination-pulls-out-of-parliamentary-electoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/07\/paruyr-hayrikyans-union-for-self-determination-pulls-out-of-parliamentary-electoral-race.html","title":{"rendered":"Paruyr Hayrikyan&#8217;s Union for Self-Determination Pulls Out of Parliamentary Electoral Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union for Self-Determination (AIM) party leader Paruyr Hayrikyan, acknowledging a lack of sufficient support from the public, has renounced running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, he said himself at a press conference in the Armenian capital today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We decided not to participate in the elections, but a portion of AIM members suggested appealing to citizens to get their support. They were convinced that we would get a positive response and at the initial stage, those expectations were justified. That was a stage of some sort after which we were confronted with the fact that we are unable to continue this way,&#8221; he said, noting that this period of enthusiasm, however, didn&#8217;t last long, and the donations the party received from the public (which AIM asked for in order to participate in the elections) weren&#8217;t great \u2014 just 14 million 400 thousand drams (a little over $37 thousand USD).<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Hayrikyan continued, the party felt obliged to make public that AIM, as a political organization, doesn&#8217;t have such practical, public support, in which case the call to run in the elections on its own would&#8217;ve been justified.<\/p>\n<p>The party leader assured that all the money donated for the elections and the election campaign will be returned to donors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AIM members have the right to participate or not in the elections at their own discretion,&#8221; he said.<\/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>&#8220;We decided not to participate in the elections, but a portion of AIM members suggested appealing to citizens to get their support&#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":167269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[39134,13317,15568,39135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167288"}],"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=167288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}