{"id":108663,"date":"2020-11-14T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=108663"},"modified":"2020-11-14T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:04:08","slug":"the-people-finally-turn-against-the-american-branch-of-the-rajapakse-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/11\/14\/the-people-finally-turn-against-the-american-branch-of-the-rajapakse-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Finally Turn Against the American-Branch of the Rajapakse Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0Punchi Singho\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Briefing the media, at a press conference on 12<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;November\n2020, was one of the outstanding and respected personalities in the Sri Lankan\nlegal profession, Mr.&nbsp;Mayura&nbsp;Gunawansha&nbsp;President\u2019s\nCounsel and an advisor to the Government.&nbsp;Please open video.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/556585814550714\/posts\/1504465263096093\/?sfnsn=mo\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/556585814550714\/posts\/1504465263096093\/?sfnsn=mo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Gunawansha&nbsp;was speaking to the press in his capacity as\nthe spokesperson for the powerful \u2018Professionals National Front\u2019 (PNF)\ncomprising a wide array of professionals, intellectuals, journalists,\neducationists, trade Unionists, university students and members of the Maha\nSangha.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PNF contributed in a major way to getting the President the\n6.9 Million votes that he received at the Elections considering that he lacked\npolitical maturity and the charisma of a Mahinda Rajapakse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Gunawansha in this video describes the increasing\ndisillusionment with President Gotabaya Rajapakse\u2019s conduct; the straw that\nbroke the camel\u2019s back was the realisation that the President is attempting to\nsell off the land in the country to the Americans by resorting illegally to the\nuse of circulars and gazette to reverse Acts of Parliament, using the cover of\nCOVID restrictions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dark clouds are gathering over the island and there are whispers\nof impeachment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Punchi Singho\u00a0\u00a0 Briefing the media, at a press conference on 12th&nbsp;November 2020, was one of the outstanding and respected personalities in the Sri Lankan legal profession, Mr.&nbsp;Mayura&nbsp;Gunawansha&nbsp;President\u2019s Counsel and an advisor to the Government.&nbsp;Please open video.&nbsp; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/556585814550714\/posts\/1504465263096093\/?sfnsn=mo Mr. Gunawansha&nbsp;was speaking to the press in his capacity as the spokesperson for the powerful \u2018Professionals National Front\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108663","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=108663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}