{"id":131169,"date":"2023-01-06T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T23:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131169"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T23:42:22","slug":"sri-lankas-lg-election-will-create-world-record-if-held-siyambalapitya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/06\/sri-lankas-lg-election-will-create-world-record-if-held-siyambalapitya\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s LG election will create world record if held \u2013 Siyambalapitya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Speaking with regards to the upcoming Local Government (LG) elections that are due to be held, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya has stated that in the event an LG election is held amidst Sri Lanka\u2019s current situation, it will be a \u2018world record\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;\u0db6\u0ddd\u0d9a\u0dca\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0ddc\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd9\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0d9a\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0d9c\u0dda&quot; - \u0db8\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba \u0dad\u0dd2\u0db6\u0dca\u0db6\u0ddc\u0dad\u0dca \u0dbd\u0ddd\u0d9a \u0dc0\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dad\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PiHSI9eKE5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasoning as to why he deemed the election as such, Siyambalapitiya explained that holding such an election would require for money to be printed, which is a rather difficult task amidst the ongoing economic crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can hold the election, and also create a world record. What is the world record? A country with world\u2019s worst economic crisis printing money to hold an election\u201d, Siyambalapitiya stated in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Speaking with regards to the upcoming Local Government (LG) elections that are due to be held, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya has stated that in the event an LG election is held amidst Sri Lanka\u2019s current situation, it will be a \u2018world record\u2019.&nbsp; Reasoning as to why he deemed the election as [&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-131169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131169","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=131169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}