{"id":274616,"date":"2016-09-08T12:55:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=274616"},"modified":"2016-09-08T13:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T09:56:45","slug":"armenian-prime-minister-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/09\/08\/armenian-prime-minister-resigns.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Prime Minister Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenian prime minister Hovik Abrahamyan submitted his resignation during a September 8 cabinet meeting, stating that Armenia needed a &ldquo;new beginning&rdquo; to improve the current socio-economic situation in the country.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;I have decided to resign and give the president a chance to form a new government,&rdquo; Abrahamyan said, adding that the new government would need &ldquo;new approaches to unite the society.&rdquo;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPress speculations regarding the Armenian premier&#39;s potential resignation began over a week ago. According to multiple reports, Abrahamyan, who was appointed prime minister after Tigran Sargsyan&#39;s resignation in 2014, is to be succeeded by former Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSoon after his appointment to the post, Abrahamyan began to speak of the need to fight against shadow economy in Armenia, claiming that large business entities were the government&#39;s main target. Meanwhile, Abrahamyan himself, along with his relatives, owns a number of fish farms in Armenia&#39;s Ararat Valley and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/04\/13\/garni-residents-block-village-road-refuse-to-pay-for-pm%E2%80%99s-irrigation-water-video.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">has been accused<\/span><\/a><\/strong> by residents of nearby villages on multiple occasions of excessive use of local water resources.<\/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>Press speculations regarding the Armenian premier&#8217;s potential resignation began over a week ago. According to multiple reports, Abrahamyan, who was appointed prime minister after Tigran Sargsyan&#8217;s&#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":255387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13287,13543,19754,12904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274616"}],"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=274616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}