{"id":272197,"date":"2016-04-18T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=272197"},"modified":"2016-04-18T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:01:03","slug":"republican-candidates-win-in-armenian-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/04\/18\/republican-candidates-win-in-armenian-local-elections.html","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidates Win in Armenian Local Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAram Danielyan, a representative of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, was re-elected Sunday mayor of the Armenian city of Hrazdan; according to the preliminary data published by Armenia&#39;s Central Electoral Commission (CEC), Danielyan received the votes of 12,510 citizens, while opposition Civil Contract Party candidate Sasun Mikayelyan came in second with 10,267 votes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the CEC, Armenian Renaissance Party candidate Arthur Misakyan got 1237 votes, and 813 ballots were reported as invalid, out of the total number of 24,561 ballots.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRepublican incumbent mayors, Sargis Aramyan and Gagik Sahakyan, were also re-elected in the cities of Talin and Spitak, respectively.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA number of Armenian observers and reporters claim to have recorded numerous gross violations in favor of the RPA-affiliated candidate during the local vote in Hrazdan. In a video published by Armlur.am, a voter openly declares that incumbent mayor Aram Danielyan had given away &ldquo;bags of money&rdquo; to be distributed among the voters, while according to a Civilnet.am video, elderly people had been told in advance to vote for Danielyan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EGAnZfjPt2o?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nxGE6qiGNHU?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/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>A number of Armenian observers and reporters claim to have recorded numerous gross violations in favor of the RPA-affiliated candidate during the local vote in Hrazdan. In a video published by Armlur.am&#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":272191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37317,14163,61611,64406,11294,64405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272197"}],"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=272197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}