{"id":120196,"date":"2021-11-11T18:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120196"},"modified":"2021-11-11T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:14:55","slug":"after-you-chase-us-away-why-elect-us-again-sri-lankan-president-questions-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/11\/after-you-chase-us-away-why-elect-us-again-sri-lankan-president-questions-public\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAfter you chase us away, why elect us again?\u2019\u2019 Sri Lankan President questions public"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Nov 11 (DailyMirror) \u2013 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, today at an event questioned the public as to why they elect politicians who they had once chased away and urged them to look for new people without electing the same set of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said after governing for 5 years, the opposition had failed in their performance which is why he was elected, but now after two years, the opposition behaved like they had never governed the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if myself or the ministers in my government don\u2019t meet your expectations, don\u2019t elect the same set of people. Look for new people. This system has to change,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/colombo-gampaha-goes-on-alert-over-covid-19-again\/\">Colombo, Gampaha goes on alert over COVID-19 again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no point in electing the same group of people into power if they fail to meet the people\u2019s expectations. I don\u2019t know how it could be done but that is the reality,\u201d the President said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you chase us away, again you elect us. What\u2019s the point in that ?\u201d he further questioned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/lack-of-consultations-has-led-to-lankan-governments-taking-inappropriate-and-unpopular-decisions\/?highlight=consultations\">Lack of consultations has led to Lankan government\u2019s taking inappropriate and unpopular decisions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Nov 11 (DailyMirror) \u2013 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, today at an event questioned the public as to why they elect politicians who they had once chased away and urged them to look for new people without electing the same set of people. He said after governing for 5 years, the opposition had failed [&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-120196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120196","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=120196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}