{"id":130501,"date":"2022-12-07T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130501"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:28:50","slug":"presidential-election-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/12\/07\/presidential-election-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election next year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Whilst highlighting that a Presidential election is the best option when it comes to seeking a mandate of the people, UNP stalwart Navin Dissanayake today said one could expect a presidential poll in August 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The best option to hold a Presidential election, as people can elect a new president after one whom they elected had left the post. Therefore expect a Presidential election in August 2023,&#8221; Dissanayake told a media briefing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Predident believes in conducting elections on time and therefore there won&#8217;t be a postponement of polls,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Also there is a suggestion that all three polls, including the general, Presidential and local government election be held on the same day by amending the constitution. I have also made the same suggestion to the President.&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, he said the presidency should be abolished as the incumbent President is also expressed such opinion.&nbsp;<strong>(Yohan Perera)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Whilst highlighting that a Presidential election is the best option when it comes to seeking a mandate of the people, UNP stalwart Navin Dissanayake today said one could expect a presidential poll in August 2023.&nbsp; &#8220;The best option to hold a Presidential election, as people can elect a new president after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130501","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=130501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}