{"id":29677,"date":"2016-09-30T06:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=29677"},"modified":"2016-10-18T06:47:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:47:18","slug":"%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%ae%d5%a5%d5%b4%d5%b6%d5%ab%d5%af-%d6%85%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%b6-%c2%ab%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%b8%d5%b7%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4-%d5%af%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d6%81%d5%b6%d5%b8%d5%b2%d5%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%ae%d5%a5%d5%b4%d5%b6%d5%ab%d5%af-%d6%85%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%b6-%c2%ab%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%b8%d5%b7%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4-%d5%af%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d6%81%d5%b6%d5%b8%d5%b2%d5%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"Aytsemnik Ohanyan: \u201cIt is up to Vanadzor residentes to make a decision\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ajcemnik-2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ajcemnik-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"556\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Vanadzor local elections to be held on October 2d, the only party &#8220;list of <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span>which is headed by a female is \u201cProsperous Armenia&#8221; In fact, the PAP originally planned another candidate for mayor<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span>but the discussions and the survey showed <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span>in the third largest city of Armenia, that doctor Aytsemnik Ohanyan is quite popular and respected authority figure and the choice fell on her nomination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Ohanyan told WomenNet that participation in the political process is not something new for her, in the mid-1990s she was a member of the council, then run again, but did not receive enough votes. She says that the town is not accustomed to female council members, and not everybody is <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span>ready to see a woman mayor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are accustomed to female eldermen, and I&#8217;ve been a council member, doctor Kalantaryan has been represented for many years. But female mayor is difficult and not only in Vanadzor, in Armenia in general. Therefore, there has never been a woman mayor in the Republic&#8221;,- she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full text in Armenian<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">&nbsp; In Vanadzor local elections to be held on October 2d, the only party &#8220;list of \u00a0which is headed by a female is \u201cProsperous Armenia&#8221; In fact, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,181,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-119","category-181","category-women-and-elections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}