{"id":102183,"date":"2020-05-12T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102183"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:54:56","slug":"no-decision-regarding-the-postponement-of-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/12\/no-decision-regarding-the-postponement-of-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"No decision regarding the postponement of the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> It is reported that no decision was taken during the meeting by the Election Commission held today whether to postpone the General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  A senior commission officials stated that June 20thwould remain as the day for the General election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Meanwhile, the election commission has decided not to allocate preferential numbers to the candidates at this moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The senior officer stated that the gazette which was tabled before the commission in this regard was not considered today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Election Commission was presided by its chairman Mahinda Desphapriya at his office today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In addition, the secretaries of political parties with coalitions and the election commission met this afternoon for a discussion on June 20&lt;sup>th&lt;\/sup>&nbsp;election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> At the same time, the Supreme Court decided to consider the fundamental petition filed by Charitha Gunarathna against holding the election on June 20&lt;sup>th&lt;\/sup>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The petitioner requested the top court to declare the relevant gazette of the election null and void as it is contravened to the Constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> However, the supreme&nbsp;court decided yesterday to consider the petition on the 18&lt;sup>th&lt;\/sup>&nbsp;and 19&lt;sup>th&lt;\/sup>&nbsp;of this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nLater, an individual filed his petition requesting the court to declare the previous petition null and void.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News It is reported that no decision was taken during the meeting by the Election Commission held today whether to postpone the General Election. A senior commission officials stated that June 20thwould remain as the day for the General election. Meanwhile, the election commission has decided not to allocate preferential numbers to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}