{"id":269887,"date":"2015-12-07T15:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269887"},"modified":"2015-12-07T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:07:51","slug":"armenian-opposition-faction-announces-boycott-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/07\/armenian-opposition-faction-announces-boycott-of-parliament.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Opposition Faction Announces Boycott of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) parliamentary faction announced on Monday a boycott of the four-day sittings of the National Assembly. Addressing ruling Republican Party MPs at the start of the December 7 session, ANC faction leader Levon Zurabyan stated that in the situation that has been created after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/07\/draft-constitution-backed-by-more-than-60-percent-of-voters-authorities-claim.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Sunday&#39;s referendum<\/span><\/a> on draft constitutional amendments, their party &ldquo;cannot sit in the same room with you and work as usual.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The reason for the boycott is the shameful violation of the will of the people that occurred yesterday, when an&nbsp;entire arsenal of electoral fraud was used to falsify the constitutional referendum. There was mass ballot stuffing, there was use of violence, terror, bribery and&#8230;&rdquo; Zurabyan&#39;s speech was interrupted by parliament speaker Galust Sahakyan who urged deputy NA speaker Eduard Sharmazanov to turn off the oppositionist&#39;s microphone, stating he had a &ldquo;different point of view.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSharmazanov complied with the speaker&#39;s order, after which Levon Zurabyan, Aram Manukyan and Gagik Jhangiryan, three representatives of the 7-member ANC faction, left the National Assembly hall.&nbsp;<\/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>Sharmazanov complied with the speaker&#8217;s order, after which Levon Zurabyan, Aram Manukyan and Gagik Jhangiryan, three representatives of the 7-member ANC faction, left the National Assembly hall&#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":260495,"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\/269887"}],"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=269887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}