{"id":131519,"date":"2023-01-19T17:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131519"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:39:25","slug":"regulation-of-election-expenditure-bill-passed-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/19\/regulation-of-election-expenditure-bill-passed-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill passed in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was passed in Parliament a short while ago, with a majority of 61 votes.<\/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=\"\u0d85\u0daf \u0dc3\u0db8\u0dca\u0db8\u0dad \u0dc0\u0dd6 \u0db4\u0db1\u0dad\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0daf\u0dda \u0db8\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1... &quot;\u0d89\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1.. \u0db4\u0ddc\u0da9\u0dca\u0da9\u0d9a\u0dca \u0d89\u0dc0\u0dc3\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTAIgpwAnnU?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>Accordingly, the Bill was passed in Parliament with 97 voted in favour, while 36 MPs voted against the Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debate on the Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was taken up in Parliament today (19 Jan.), despite&nbsp; the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms previously deciding to postpone the debate by one month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several political parties in the opposition including the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), however, expressed their discontent about scheduling the debate for today, citing the government\u2019s attempts to pass the bill hastily in a bid to postpone the local government election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was passed in Parliament a short while ago, with a majority of 61 votes. Accordingly, the Bill was passed in Parliament with 97 voted in favour, while 36 MPs voted against the Bill. The debate on the Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was taken up in Parliament [&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-131519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131519","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=131519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}