{"id":252025,"date":"2014-04-10T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=252025"},"modified":"2014-04-10T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:59:03","slug":"serzh-sargsyan-promises-never-to-run-for-president-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/04\/10\/serzh-sargsyan-promises-never-to-run-for-president-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Serzh Sargsyan Promises Never to Run for President Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan at a meeting with members of a special commission on constitutional reforms today said he will not run for president again in the future. According to a preliminary draft of the concept of constitutional reforms, published on the RA Ministry of Justice website earlier today, the country&#39;s president is elected by the National Assembly from among candidates who have no party affiliation for a term of 7 years with no option of renewal.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn Sargsyan&#39;s opinion, for Armenia, at least at this stage of development, the current governance model is the most acceptable. &quot;In any case, I find that this issue raised by the expert commission, among others, should become the subject of public discussions. But it&#39;s important also to keep in mind that in giving a final assessment on political issues, the approaches of our country&#39;s political forces should not be ignored or underestimated,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;And before you, before beginning the discussions stage, I officially declare that I, Serzh Sargsyan, will never run for President of the Republic of Armenia. If, as a result of the final discussions, a path that does not correspond with my wishes is chosen, I mean the model of parliamentary government, then I will not run also for the position of prime minister,&quot; he said, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.president.am\/hy\/press-release\/item\/2014\/04\/10\/President-Serzh-Sargsyan-meeting-Commission-on-Constitutional-reforms\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>president&#39;s official website<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [AM].&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSargsyan added that he is &quot;even confident&quot; that in Armenia, one man should not manage the country more than twice in his lifetime.<\/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>Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan at a meeting with members of a special commission on constitutional reforms today said he will not run for president again in the future&#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":227722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54731,54732,54730,14884,13543,11268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252025"}],"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=252025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}