{"id":278438,"date":"2017-02-06T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=278438"},"modified":"2017-02-06T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:12:52","slug":"republican-mp-making-his-employees-change-their-polling-locations-oppositionist-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/02\/06\/republican-mp-making-his-employees-change-their-polling-locations-oppositionist-claims.html","title":{"rendered":"Republican MP Making His Employees Change Their Polling Locations, Oppositionist Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great number of citizens have been reporting that ruling Republican Party MP Artak Sargsyan is making the employees of his SAS supermarkets chain change their registration address and re-register in the district where he intends to nominate his candidacy for the upcoming parliamentary elections, Nikol Pashinyan, a lawmaker with the opposition Armenian National Congress faction, announced at the National Assembly today when <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/02\/03\/pashinyan-wants-to-find-out-how-much-money-armenias-senior-officials-have.html\">presenting his plan<\/a><\/span><\/strong> for creating an ad hoc committee which would look into the sources of income of Armenia\u2019s high-ranking officials and their immediate relatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe electoral and the political process in general is for us first of all a platform for discussing political content and mechanisms and not a process of collecting photocopies of Armenians&#8217; passports. By the way, Mr. Artak Sargsyan, I&#8217;ve been receiving letters from citizens who report that you are forcing the employees of SAS supermarkets to re-register in your nomination district. I&#8217;m singling you out so that you are able today to explain [from the parliament floor] whether this information corresponds to the truth,\u201d Pashinyan said.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian citizens, the oppositionist went on, should have complete information on Armenia&#8217;s state property for the past 20 years; \u201cThe people should be given an answer to one question: how come a 25-year government has a budget of only 2.7 billion. Why is it that Armenia is, in fact, unable to meet its basic needs, while at the same time many high-ranking Armenian officials are swimming in wealth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note, later on in an interview with reporters Artak Sargsyan, who will run in the 2017 parliamentary elections from Yerevan&#8217;s Arabkir administrative district, claimed that Pashinyan&#8217;s assertions regarding his employees were untrue.<\/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>Armenian citizens, the oppositionist went on, should have complete information on Armenia&#8217;s state property for the past 20 years; \u201cThe people should be given an answer to one question&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66058],"tags":[66425,39150,15418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278438"}],"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=278438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}