{"id":170952,"date":"2012-03-26T13:41:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=170952"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:42:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T08:42:32","slug":"opposition-party-leader-withdraws-his-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/26\/opposition-party-leader-withdraws-his-candidacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Party Leader Withdraws his Candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian (pictured) has withdrawn his candidacy in the upcoming parliamentary election in the no. 7 electoral district, where Armenian National Congress (HAK) contender Nikol Pashinyan; Samvel Aleksanyan, backed by the Republican Party of Armenia; and Vardan Vardanyan (no party affiliation) were also nominated.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition party leader has said that these past couple of days his party initiated talks with HAK and the parliamentary opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D), suggesting that opposition forces defend only one candidate in each electoral district (constituency). The ARF-D, however, rejected the proposal, considering it to be an anachronism. As for HAK, the Heritage Party representative met with the HAK representative (Hovannisian didn&#8217;t name names) and held negotiations, during which time the Heritage Party proposed they back a HAK candidate in the no. 21 electoral district; Heritage Party, in the no. 7 electoral district; and ARF-D, in no. 13.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hovannisian, HAK rejected this offer, which is &#8220;a symptom of the opposition&#8217;s trajectory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that everyone has ambitions and an intention to support his own people. It&#8217;s never too late. I made a timely decision to withdraw my candidacy,&#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>Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian has withdrawn his candidacy in the upcoming parliamentary election in the no. 7 electoral district&#8230;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":170624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12075,15418,13317,12077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170952"}],"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=170952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}