{"id":258033,"date":"2014-09-30T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=258033"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:57:07","slug":"258033","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/09\/30\/258033.html","title":{"rendered":"NGO Demanding PM to Put Armenian Eurasian Economic Union Membership to Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The &ldquo;Union of Informed Citizen&rdquo; NGO is demanding Armenian PM Hovik Abrahamyan to put the Armenia&rsquo;s membership to the Eurasian Economic Union to a referendum.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The NGO emphasized that their application is supported by the Armenian Constitution&rsquo;s 2nd article (In the Republic of Armenia the power belongs to the people. The people exercise their power through free elections, referenda, as well as through state and local self-governing bodies and public officials as provided by the Constitution), as well as the Armenian law &ldquo;About Referendums&rdquo; 4th article, first section and 8.1 article, first and third section, which in accordance to the government can initiate a referendum regarding an important state issue to expose the opinion of society.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In addition, the &ldquo;Union of Informed Citizens&rdquo; NGO has sent 15 petitions to Parliamentary faction leaderships and other parliamentarians, to unite on the issue of initiating a referendum.<\/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>The NGO emphasized that their application is supported by the Armenian Constitution\u2019s 2nd article (In the Republic of Armenia the power belongs to the people. The people exercise their power through free&#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":211114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55215,13287,57755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258033"}],"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=258033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}