{"id":105278,"date":"2020-08-05T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105278"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:15:51","slug":"ranil-hopes-2020-polls-would-be-last-under-pr-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/05\/ranil-hopes-2020-polls-would-be-last-under-pr-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil hopes 2020 polls would be last under PR system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>UNP Leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe expressed hopes that today\u2019s general elections would be the last held under the Proportional Representation (PR) system in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully this would be the last general elections held in this country under the PR system. We proposed a mixed system without preferential votes when we were in the government. I hope we could work out an agreement and bring about a change in the electoral system,\u201d Mr. Wickremesinghe told journalists after casting his vote at College House polling station today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also he said the Commission of Elections had done a good job ensuring that the election is conducted under strict health guidelines. I would like to thank the Commission of Elections for ensuring that health guidelines are followed when conducting the poll,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The online campaigns which were vastly visible in this election is likely to continue,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP Leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe expressed hopes that today\u2019s general elections would be the last held under the Proportional Representation (PR) system in Sri Lanka. Hopefully this would be the last general elections held in this country under the PR system. We proposed a mixed system [&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-105278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105278","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=105278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}