{"id":72000,"date":"2011-03-02T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T10:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=72000"},"modified":"2011-03-03T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T08:24:20","slug":"ter-petrossian-is-preparing-for-next-elections-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/02\/ter-petrossian-is-preparing-for-next-elections-opinion.html","title":{"rendered":"Ter-Petrossian is Preparing for Next Elections: Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participating in yesterday&#8217;s Armenian National Congress (HAK) rally was writer, publicist Marine Petrosyan, who 2-3 years ago used to come to all the opposition rallies. Then she began to criticize HAK&#8217;s tactics and stopped going to the rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am, she said before the rally she noticed enthusiasm in the people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went to the rally to feel that enthusiasm, and, truth be told, I had missed it. I noticed that the people were many and they were very disgruntled in a way, but that festive mood wasn&#8217;t there. That which I had missed and remembered wasn&#8217;t there at the rally,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In Petrosyan&#8217;s opinion, HAK is preparing for (not pre-term but) regular elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my opinion, [HAK leader] Levon Ter-Petrossian is using the fact of many people at the rally as a playing card to reach an agreement with <object width=\"400\"  height=\"342\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/current.com\/e\/president\/en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/current.com\/e\/president\/en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"  width=\"400\"  height=\"342\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object> Serzh Sargsyan. Levon says, &#8216;see, there&#8217;s so many people by my side,&#8217; and with minor concessions, he wants to reach an agreement. This simply ensures the increase of Levon&#8217;s rating in the next elections,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Petrosyan considered unacceptable the 15 demands announced by Ter-Petrossian and put to a vote by the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A normal man would be insulted by such a thing. That could&#8217;ve been done a different way, but to announce something in the name of that many people and call it voting, it&#8217;s offensive in a way. This is a bad precedent; if in the future issues get resolved through such voting, it&#8217;ll be dreadful,&#8221; she said, concerned.<\/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>&#8220;In my opinion, [HAK leader] Levon Ter-Petrossian is using the fact of many people at the rally as a playing card to reach an agreement with&#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":71959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11546,21114,22844,18495,16236,15601],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72000"}],"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=72000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}