{"id":822,"date":"2017-07-19T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/?p=822"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:34:18","slug":"bako-sahakyan-gets-three-more-years-as-karabakh-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2017\/07\/19\/bako-sahakyan-gets-three-more-years-as-karabakh-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Bako Sahakyan Gets Three More Years as Karabakh President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/01\/IAS-Nagorno-Karabakh-parliament-in-session.-Courtesy-image-768x432.jpeg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/01\/IAS-Nagorno-Karabakh-parliament-in-session.-Courtesy-image-1280x720.jpeg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/01\/IAS-Nagorno-Karabakh-parliament-in-session.-Courtesy-image-768x432.jpeg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Nagorno Karabakh parliament in session. 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The July 19 vote came as Sahakyan\u2019s second five-year term was due to conclude in September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement stemmed from a new constitutional framework adopted in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shoogamarketing.com\/usc\/focus-on-karabakh\/highlight\/new-constitution-karabakh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">referendum last February<\/a>. Starting in 2020, the president and the National Assembly of Nagorno Karabakh will be elected in concurrently\u00a0held elections, both for five year terms. The constitutional change allowed for the three year gap to be covered via parliamentary vote for president.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/a\/28626983.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debate prior to the\u00a0vote,<\/a>\u00a0the incumbent\u2019s only challenger, opposition MP and former mayor of Stepanakert Eduard Aghabekyan argued that keeping the same person in power for too\u00a0long leads to stagnation. He also criticized Sahakyan\u2019s record in handling Nagorno Karabakh\u2019s security challenges, particularly during the April 2016 war. Aghabekyan received four votes in his support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rus.azatutyun.am\/a\/28598141.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critics saw\u00a0<\/a>the constitutional referendum as a way to extend Sahakyan\u2019s presidential term beyond the two five-year terms he was limited to, when first elected in 2007. Sahakyan\u2019s predecessor, Arkady Ghoukasyan left the office after serving two terms (1997-2007). Robert Kocharyan was first elected president of Nagorno Karabakh in a parliamentary vote in 1994, then in a national vote in 1996, but resigned to become Armenia\u2019s prime minister in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From 1991 to 1994 Nagorno Karabakh did not have a president, with the country led by the speaker of parliament and the prime minister. From 1992 to 1994, during the most intense period of the Karabakh war, the parliament delegated most of its powers to the State Defense Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bako Sahakyan Gets Three More Years as Karabakh President<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2017\/07\/19\/bako-sahakyan-gets-three-more-years-as-karabakh-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bako Sahakyan Gets Three More Years as Karabakh President - 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