{"id":272835,"date":"2016-05-25T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=272835"},"modified":"2016-05-25T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:40:31","slug":"new-armenian-electoral-code-passed-in-third-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/05\/25\/new-armenian-electoral-code-passed-in-third-reading.html","title":{"rendered":"New Armenian Electoral Code Passed in Third Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tArmenia&#39;s National Assembly passed in the third and final reading on Wednesday a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venice.coe.int\/webforms\/documents\/?pdf=CDL-REF%282016%29018-e\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">new Electoral Code<\/span><\/a> drafted by the Armenian government; the parliamentary forces approved the bill by 102 votes to 17, with 3 abstentions.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring a pre-vote discussion, leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) faction Levon Zurabyan insisted that the revised draft code did not address <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/22\/petition-proposes-five-crucial-changes-to-armenias-electoral-code.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">any of the issues<\/span><\/a> raised by the society and the political forces related to the implementation of the OSCE\/ODIHR proposals. &ldquo;Therefore, we will vote against its adoption, in the hope that [the government and the opposition] will continue to work towards achieving consensus on the Code,&rdquo; the MP said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHrant Bagratyan, another lawmaker from ANC, stressed that the government did not take into account a number of crucial issues put forward by ANC. &ldquo;You&#39;ll later regret offending the opposition,&rdquo; he added.<\/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>Hrant Bagratyan, another lawmaker from ANC, stressed that the government did not take into account a number of crucial issues put forward by ANC. \u201cYou&#8217;ll later regret offending the opposition,\u201d he added&#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":272833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13384,15891,20940],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272835"}],"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=272835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}