{"id":169311,"date":"2012-03-19T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=169311"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T08:30:04","slug":"heritage-party%e2%80%93free-democrats-alliance-confirmed-candidates-list-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/19\/heritage-party%e2%80%93free-democrats-alliance-confirmed-candidates-list-published.html","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Party\u2013Free Democrats Parliamentary Candidates&#8217; List Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Party formally approved an agreement to enter the parliamentary race with Free Democrats party, following the former&#8217;s board meeting on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/24518086.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">RFE\/RL&#8217;s Armenian service<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the Free Democrats party was set up last year by Ararat Zurabyan, Khachatur Kokobelyan, former foreign minister Alexander Arzumanyan and other politicians who split from the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK). They are believed to have fallen out with HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrossian.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/14\/possible-heritage-party-and-free-democrats-alliance-to-be-discussed-on-mar-18.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As promised<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the list of candidates participating in the election was also determined and confirmed on Sunday. 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 full list of candidates under the majoritarian system is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. Styopa (Stepan) Safaryan (Heritage Party MP)<br \/>\n2. Zaruhi Postanjyan (Heritage Party MP)<br \/>\n3. Armen Martirosyan (Heritage Party MP)<br \/>\n4. Ruben Hakobyan (Heritage Party)<br \/>\n5. Anahit Bakhshyan (Heritage Party MP)<br \/>\n6. Robert Shahbazyan (Heritage Party)<br \/>\n7. Gagik Margaryan (Heritage Party)<br \/>\n8. Garnik Sahakyan (Heritage Party)<\/p>\n<p>The top 25 candidates (out of a list of 101) nominated under the proportional system are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Raffi Hovannisian (Heritage Party leader)<br \/>\nKhachatur Kokobelyan (Free Democrats)<br \/>\nZaruhi Postanjyan (Heritage Party MP)<br \/>\nAlik Arzumanyan (Free Democrats)<br \/>\nRuben Hakobyan (Heritage Party)<br \/>\nTevan Poghosyan (no party affiliation)<br \/>\nMasis Ayvazyan (Free Democrats)<br \/>\nStyopa (Stepan) Safaryan (Heritage Party MP)<br \/>\nIsabella Abgaryan (no party affiliation)<br \/>\nArman Mushegyan (no party affiliation)<br \/>\nAnush Sedrakyan (Free Democrats)<br \/>\nArtak Ghazaryan (no party affiliation)<br \/>\nGarnik Sahakyan (Heritage Party)<br \/>\nAnahit Bakhshyan (Heritage Party MP)<br \/>\nHovhannes Ghazaryan (Free Democrats)<br \/>\nArmen Martirosyan (Heritage Party MP)<br \/>\nAraks Poghosyan (no party affiliation)<br \/>\nKarapet Rubinyan (no party affiliation)<br \/>\nHovsep Khurshudyan (Heritage Party)<br \/>\nKaren Karapetyan (Free Democrats)<br \/>\nArtur Poghosyan (Free Democrats)<br \/>\nArmen Torosyan (Heritage Party)<br \/>\nGagik Margaryan (Heritage Party)<br \/>\nVahagn Ghazaryan (Free Democrats)<br \/>\nVardan Khachatryan (MP, no party affiliation)<\/p>\n<p>The lists in full will be filed with the Central Election Commission as required by law, reports the Heritage Party&#8217;s press service.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 12:28 pm local time, same day: The two parties will be running in the elections on a joint list, but have not formed an alliance per se.<\/em><\/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 Heritage Party formally approved an agreement to enter the parliamentary race with Free Democrats party, following&#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":108424,"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\/169311"}],"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=169311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}