{"id":269621,"date":"2015-11-30T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T08:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269621"},"modified":"2015-11-30T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T08:07:00","slug":"citizen-refuses-to-participate-in-illegitimate-referendum-demands-her-name-be-removed-from-electoral-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/30\/citizen-refuses-to-participate-in-illegitimate-referendum-demands-her-name-be-removed-from-electoral-list.html","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Refuses to Participate in &#8216;Illegitimate&#8217; Referendum, Demands Her Name Be Removed From Electoral List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&ldquo;As a citizen of the Republic of Armenia, I refuse to take part on December 6 in the referendum on Constitutional amendments. I find the holding of the referendum, as well as the entire process of constitutional changes illegitimate,&rdquo; citizen Arpine Galfayan wrote in an open letter addressed to, as stated by the author, &ldquo;incumbent head&rdquo; of &nbsp;the RA Central Electoral Commission Tigran Mukuchyan, &ldquo;incumbent chief&rdquo; of the RA Police Vladimir Gasparyan, &ldquo;incumbent head&rdquo; of Yerevan&#39;s Central Passport and Visa Department Anahit Virabyan. On November 26, Galfayan, along with three other citizens, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2015\/11\/26\/%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%B6%D6%80%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%AB%D6%81-%D5%A1%D5%BC%D5%A1%D5%BB-%D5%B0%D5%B0-%D6%84%D5%A1%D5%B2%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%B6-%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%B9.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">issued a statement<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<em>[AM]&nbsp;<\/em>explaining the reasons for their decision.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn her open letter Galfayan noted that she is announcing her decision not to participate in the referendum in advance so that it be &ldquo;viewed as an act of dissent and rebellion against the implemented lawlessness.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;This is a public statement on my deliberate decision not to take part in the elections; I refuse to be part &nbsp;of this process of weakening the state and do not feel responsible for any consequences arising from these elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;At the same time, consider this an official letter of appeal with which I demand that my name be removed from Armenia&#39;s electoral list and not be included in the voters&#39; register for the December 6 referendum,&rdquo; Galfayan wrote.<\/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>\u201cThis is a public statement on my deliberate decision not to take part in the elections; I refuse to be part  of this process of weakening the state and do not feel responsible for any consequences arising from these elections&#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":269609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62301,63341,54731,62882,63027],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269621"}],"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=269621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}