{"id":170006,"date":"2012-03-21T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T08:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=170006"},"modified":"2012-03-21T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T08:13:09","slug":"prosperous-armenia-party-didnt-warn-mp-that-he-wouldnt-be-on-election-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/21\/prosperous-armenia-party-didnt-warn-mp-that-he-wouldnt-be-on-election-list.html","title":{"rendered":"Prosperous Armenia Party Didn&#8217;t Warn MP That He Wouldn&#8217;t Be on Election List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) MP Vardan Bostanjyan found out he wasn&#8217;t on the party&#8217;s list of election candidates only after the list was made public, he told Epress.am today.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the list of candidates to contest a seat under the system of proportional representation was made public late yesterday evening, following a meeting of the party&#8217;s political council. Note, 90 of the 131 seats in the National Assembly are contested under this system of voting for the party, while the remaining seats are elected in single-mandate constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bostanjyan, his name is not only not in the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/21\/prosperous-armenia-party-announces-parliamentary-candidates-list.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">top 20 spots<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the party list, but also not at the end of the list.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why he didn&#8217;t make the cut, the lawmaker said he had no idea. &#8220;Nothing has been said to me. I found out after the list was published that I&#8217;m not in it. So I can&#8217;t give any comments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BHK press spokesperson Khachik Galstyan also refused to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have publicized our decision on how and with whom to enter the parliamentary election. The list is before you; you&#8217;re free to comment,&#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>Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) MP Vardan Bostanjyan found out he wasn&#8217;t on the party&#8217;s list of election candidates only after&#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":169978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21753,37521,15969],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170006"}],"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=170006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}