{"id":242013,"date":"2013-10-25T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T08:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=242013"},"modified":"2013-10-25T12:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T08:28:55","slug":"%e2%80%98button-pressing%e2%80%99-mps%e2%80%99-salaries-shouldn%e2%80%99t-increase-postanjyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2013\/10\/25\/%e2%80%98button-pressing%e2%80%99-mps%e2%80%99-salaries-shouldn%e2%80%99t-increase-postanjyan.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Button-Pressing\u2019 MPs\u2019 Salaries Shouldn\u2019t Increase: Postanjyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Zaruhi Postanjyan, head of the Heritage Party parliamentary faction, considers the bill to increase the salaries of high-ranking officials (the president, the prime minister, ministers and MPs) to be discriminatory.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile making statements in the National Assembly, the opposition MP mentioned that being increased are the salaries of those members of the elite who regularly falsify the elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs for MPs, in Postanjyan&rsquo;s opinion, they too are not worthy of a pay increase, since the current 240,000 AMD (about $592 USD) per month &ldquo;for [simply] pressing&nbsp;a button&rdquo; is sufficient, especially since MPs often vote for each other (in the case of absentees).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe MP also noticed that the salaries of ordinary workers in other sectors in Armenia will increase only slightly and that will happen only after Jul. 1, 2014; meanwhile, until then people have to live with a constant rise in prices.&nbsp;<\/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>Zaruhi Postanjyan, head of the Heritage Party parliamentary faction, considers the bill to increase the salaries of high-ranking officials (the president, the prime minister, ministers and MPs) to be discriminatory.<!-- 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":241998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[50949,50948,17082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242013"}],"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=242013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}