{"id":104504,"date":"2020-07-15T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T21:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104504"},"modified":"2020-07-15T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T21:59:31","slug":"extremely-difficult-to-hold-election-without-legalizing-health-guidelines-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/15\/extremely-difficult-to-hold-election-without-legalizing-health-guidelines-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremely difficult to hold election without legalizing health guidelines &#8211; EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Election Commission on Wednesday (15) said it would be extremely difficult\u201d to hold the parliamentary elections on August 5 as scheduled without the government legalising the health guidelines, including social distancing, amidst a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national poll panel also mentioned the political leaders were not adhering to the health guidelines while campaigning, jeopardising the lives of the people attending the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be extremely difficult to conduct the election unless the legal effect is given to the health guidelines,\u201d Mahinda Deshapriya, the Chairman of the Election Commission, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, PAFFREL observers at a press conference today (15) said that the government should take steps to gazette the election related health guidelines without delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives of the Association of Public Health Inspectors who met members of the Election Commission today, also made the same request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Election Commission on Wednesday (15) said it would be extremely difficult\u201d to hold the parliamentary elections on August 5 as scheduled without the government legalising the health guidelines, including social distancing, amidst a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the country. The national poll panel also mentioned the political leaders were not adhering [&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-104504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104504","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=104504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}