{"id":103294,"date":"2020-06-08T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103294"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:47:29","slug":"election-date-to-be-announced-within-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/08\/election-date-to-be-announced-within-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Election date to be announced within the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The date for holding the General Election will be declared within this week, stated the Elections Commission a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Elections Commission is currently holding a press conference regarding the General Election 2020, in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2020 \u0db8\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba \u0db4\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0\u0db1 \u0daf\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dba \u0db8\u0dda \u0dc3\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dba \u0dad\u0dd4\u0dc5\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0dad\u0dd3\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf - \u0db8\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf \u0daf\u0dda\u0dc1\u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iH_ZDEyKA0Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today (08), the members of the Elections Commission convened to decide on the date to hold the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the press conference, Chairman of the Commission Mahinda Deshapriya further said that the gazette pertaining to the preferential numbers will be issued tomorrow (09).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deshapriya had made a request to the Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe to regularize campaign guidelines through a gazette.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The date for holding the General Election will be declared within this week, stated the Elections Commission a short while ago. The Elections Commission is currently holding a press conference regarding the General Election 2020, in Colombo. Earlier today (08), the members of the Elections Commission convened to decide on the date to [&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-103294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103294","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=103294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}