{"id":269877,"date":"2015-12-07T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T06:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269877"},"modified":"2015-12-07T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T06:52:32","slug":"draft-constitution-backed-by-more-than-60-percent-of-voters-authorities-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/07\/draft-constitution-backed-by-more-than-60-percent-of-voters-authorities-claim.html","title":{"rendered":"Draft Constitution Backed by More than 60 Percent of Voters, Authorities Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">According to preliminary results released by Armenia&#39;s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) on Monday, 63.35 percent of participants of Sunday&#39;s referendum on draft constitutional amendment &#8211; 825 622 people &#8211; voted for President Serzh Sargsyan-initiated changes that seek, among other changes, to transition Armenia from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system of governance. Note, as stated in Article 35 of the Armenian Law on Referendum, the draft is considered as adopted if it receives positive votes from more than half of the voters, but not less than from one third of the citizens included in the lists.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">CEC data revealed that 421 593 citizens &ndash; 32.35 percent of referendum participants &ndash; voted against the draft; while 53 323 votes were considered invalid.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Note, throughout the entire course of the referendum local observation missions reported a number of different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/republican-youth-detained-at-voting-precinct-for-checking-whether-his-people-had-voted-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">infringements<\/span><\/a> during the election process, including but not limited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/journalists-hindered-by-republican-proxies-at-polling-stations-one-detained.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">hindrance to the observers&#39; and journalists&#39; work<\/span><\/a>, violations of the secrecy of voting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/unknown-person-filmed-distributing-money-among-citizens-on-referendum-day-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">bribery<\/span><\/a>,&nbsp;numerous instances of multiple voting, as well as acts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/06\/referendum-observer-taken-into-police-custody-in-yerevan-for-doing-%E2%80%98terrible-things%E2%80%99.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">violence and intimidation<\/span><\/a> against reporters and observers.<\/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>CEC data reveal that 421 593 citizens \u2013 32.35 percent of referendum participants \u2013 voted against the draft; while 53 323 votes were considered invalid&#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":269873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269877"}],"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=269877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}