{"id":263472,"date":"2015-03-17T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=263472"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:00:29","slug":"authorities-plan-to-reduce-the-number-of-mps-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/03\/17\/authorities-plan-to-reduce-the-number-of-mps-in-parliament.html","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Plan to Reduce the Number of MPs in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Constitutional Reforms initiated by the ruling authorities may lead to a significant reduction of the number of MPs in the National Assembly, 75, said Republican Party (HHK) faction leader, HHK executive body member Vahram Baghdasaryan when speaking to Haykakan Zhamanak daily.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen the daily&rsquo;s journalist noted that there was news circulating that the current number of MPs, 131, might be reduced to 121, Baghdasaryan responded; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the first time I&rsquo;m hearing 121, but wait for the reforms, it may be 75. If the reform goes through, either a certain significant change has to occur or the number has to stay the same.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe added that&nbsp;personally he would prefer&nbsp;that&nbsp;the number of MPs were few and a professional National Assembly were formed.<\/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>When the daily\u2019s journalist noted that there was news circulating that the current number of MPs, 131, might be reduced to 121, Baghdasaryan responded; \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019m hearing 121, but wait for the reforms&#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":259688,"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\/263472"}],"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=263472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}