{"id":249056,"date":"2014-02-18T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=249056"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:39:04","slug":"village-mayoral-elections-in-armenia-only-one-candidate-in-7-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/02\/18\/village-mayoral-elections-in-armenia-only-one-candidate-in-7-rural-communities.html","title":{"rendered":"Village Mayoral Elections in Armenia: Only One Candidate in 7 Rural Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">On Mar. 9, residents of 40 rural communities in Armenia will vote for a new village mayor. In 7 of these communities, there remains only one candidate, reports local daily <em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em>.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe period of potential candidates submitting their nominations just concluded. If they change their mind, candidates have until Feb. 27 to withdraw their nominations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe newspaper reports that all those 7 communities, two candidates were registered because, according to the Electoral Code, elections won&#39;t take place if there is only one candidate; however, in these communities, one of the candidates withdrew his candidacy not long after he submitted it.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe remaining lone candidates are incumbent village mayors:&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t1. Aragatsotn province&#39;s Vardablur village mayor, Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) member Artavazd Galstyan<br \/>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">2. Ararat province&#39;s Yeghegnavan village mayor Hovsep Ghazaryan (nominated by HHK), who has held the position since 1996<br \/>\n\t3.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Ararat province&#39;s Hayanist village mayor Balabek Sarkisyan, who has had the position since 2010<br \/>\n\t4.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Lori province&#39;s Dzoramut village mayor, another HHK member, Ararat Pnjoyan, in the position since 2010<br \/>\n\t5.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Lori province&#39;s Novoseltsovo village mayor, HHK member Ruben Davoyan, who has been the village mayor for 17 years<br \/>\n\t6.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Kotayk province&#39;s Hatsavan village mayor, Prosperous Armenia Party member Shavarsh Sargsyan has held the post since 2003<br \/>\n\t7.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Tavush province&#39;s Khachardzan village mayor, HHK member Gagik Shahnazaryan likewise has been the mayor since 2003<\/span><\/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>On Mar. 9, residents of 40 rural communities in Armenia will vote for a new village mayor. In 7 of these communities, there remains only one candidate&#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":213058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[53403,53401,53402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249056"}],"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=249056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}