{"id":240671,"date":"2013-10-07T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=240671"},"modified":"2013-10-07T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T10:14:11","slug":"an-armenian-trace-in-azerbaijan-presidential-candidates-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/07\/an-armenian-trace-in-azerbaijan-presidential-candidates-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"An &#8216;Armenian Trace&#8217; in Azerbaijan Presidential Candidates&#8217; Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The 9th and final debate on Azerbaijani public television among presidential hopefuls occurred again without the participation of the incumbent, Ilham Aliyev.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Voters haven&#39;t lost anything great, because in terms of intelligence, Aliyev doesn&#39;t differ much from those representing him,&quot; said the main subject of the ruling authorities&#39; attacks, the newly created National Council of Democratic Forces&#39; candidate Jamil Hasanli, commenting on Aliyev&#39;s absence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs reported by Contact.az, Hasanli&#39;s statement angered Modern Equality (M&uuml;asir M&uuml;savat) party leader Hafiz Hajiyev (also transliterated as Haciyev), who once again called Hasanli a &quot;father-in-law of an Armenian&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHasanli, however, recalled that Hajiyev was arrested in 1996 after he announced that Aliyev&#39;s mother was Armenian. Afterwards, according to Contact.az, Hajiyev was flushed and nervous, speaking in short sentences during his allotted time, repeating the same thing the whole time: &quot;Hasanli, Ali Karimli, and Isa Gambar are traitors; the people don&#39;t support them,&quot; and so on. Concluding, he called Hasanli a &quot;hooligan&quot;.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIlham Aliyev&#39;s representative, Ali Ahmedov, called Hasanli&#39;s statement about the president slander and again urged citizens to vote for Aliyev, &quot;in the name of a strong Azerbaijan.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs usual, Hasanli and that National Council of Democratic Forces were subject to attack also by candidates Zahid Orudj, Gudrat Hasanguliyev, and Araz Alizade.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the remaining time, Hasanli presented his election campaign, promising to declare a gold amnesty if elected. Furthermore, he promised to lower price two-fold for electricity, water, and gas; and to lift restrictions on citizens of Georgia of Azerbaijani descent in Azerbaijan; to double the salaries and pensions of teachers, doctors and civil servants; and to increase 20-fold mortgage funds; and to lower interest rates of mortgage loans for young people.<\/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 9th and final debate on Azerbaijani public television among presidential hopefuls occurred again without the participation of the incumbent, Ilham Aliyev.<!-- 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":240651,"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\/240671"}],"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=240671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}