{"id":112962,"date":"2021-03-24T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T00:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112962"},"modified":"2021-03-24T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T00:33:21","slug":"ec-decides-not-to-register-political-parties-named-after-religions-or-ethnicities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/24\/ec-decides-not-to-register-political-parties-named-after-religions-or-ethnicities\/","title":{"rendered":"EC decides not to register political parties named after religions or ethnicities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Election Commission has decided not to register political parties whose official names portray affiliations to religions or ethnicities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was taken at a meeting of the Elections Commission yesterday (March 23), Elections Commissioner-General Saman Sri Ratnayake said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that a political party is registered as a national party as per the existing law, therefore it was decided not to register parties named after religions or ethnicities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, it has also been decided to amend the official names of the recognized political parties which are currently registered with such religious or ethnic names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the relevant political parties will also be informed and given a reasonable time to amend any such clauses in the constitution of the party.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Election Commission has decided not to register political parties whose official names portray affiliations to religions or ethnicities. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Elections Commission yesterday (March 23), Elections Commissioner-General Saman Sri Ratnayake said. He stated that a political party is registered as a national party as per [&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-112962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112962","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=112962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}