{"id":273218,"date":"2016-06-15T19:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=273218"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T09:00:52","slug":"community-unification-project-to-rob-people-of-right-to-self-government-oppositionist-believes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/06\/15\/community-unification-project-to-rob-people-of-right-to-self-government-oppositionist-believes.html","title":{"rendered":"Community Unification Project to Rob People of Right to Self-Government, Oppositionist Believes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenia&#39;s Parliament debated Wednesday on a government-initiated community enlargement project that envisages merger of at least 100 Armenian villages into 13 communities.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring the debate, opposition Armenian National Congress faction secretary Aram Manukyan noted that the project aimed to unify fully developed villages with their own typical features. &ldquo;Two Noyemberyan villages with a population of 2000 and 4000 persons each are set to merge. These communities already have their own systems of local self-government which would only be destroyed by the project. How do you dare unify communities with a population of 3-4 thousand? These are fully developed villages, with their own culture and everything. You could have at least merge those that do not function as communities as such,&rdquo; the oppositionist said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tManukyan added that the project also violated Armenia&#39;s Constitution; &ldquo;The Constitution clearly states that communities can be unified or separated to serve the public interests and the Parliament is therefore obliged to hear the communities&#39; views on the project, which, by the way, are not favourable. This initiative is contrary to the rights of self-government as well as the people.&rdquo;<\/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>Manukyan added that the project also violated Armenia&#8217;s Constitution; \u201cThe Constitution clearly states that communities can be unified or separated to serve the public interests and the Parliament is therefore &#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":254364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11545,10341,61080],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273218"}],"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=273218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}