{"id":279295,"date":"2017-02-27T18:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=279295"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:23:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:23:47","slug":"karabakh-referendum-artsakh2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/02\/27\/karabakh-referendum-artsakh2.html","title":{"rendered":"Karabakh-referendum-Artsakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/artsakh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-279283\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/artsakh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A constitutional referendum was held in Nagorno-Karabakh on February 20, 2017. A number of journalists from Armenia, including a team from Epress.am, were invited to cover the event. We were provided with transport and accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Srbuhi Arzumanyan, the chairwoman\u00a0of the Central Election Commission of Karabakh, a total of 69 540 people &#8211; or 87.6% of the electorate &#8211; voted in favor of the constitutional changes. 7 686 people, for their part, voted against, while 2 202 ballots were considered invalid. \u201cThe new draft constitution is therefore pronounced adopted,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total number of eligible voters &#8211; 103 766 people &#8211; 79 428 people, or 76.44%, took part in the constitutional referendum.\u00a0The new constitution, drafted by Karabakh president Bako Sahakyan, envisages the unrecognized country&#8217;s transition to a presidential system of government.\u00a0It also allows for the use of\u00a0&#8220;Republic of Artsakh&#8221;\u00a0as the territory&#8217;s official name.<\/p>\n<p><em>Details in the video (with English subtitles):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxT0sn5Bcc8?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 total of 69 540 people &#8211; or 87.6% of the electorate &#8211; voted in favor of the constitutional changes. 7 686 people, for their part, voted against&#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":279284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,65979],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279295"}],"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=279295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}