{"id":139569,"date":"2024-01-09T15:58:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139569"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:58:59","slug":"president-wickremesinghe-to-contest-as-an-independent-candidate-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/09\/president-wickremesinghe-to-contest-as-an-independent-candidate-video\/","title":{"rendered":"President Wickremesinghe to contest as an independent candidate (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>According to internal political sources, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has made a decision to hold the Presidential Election in September 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a surprising move, he has also declared his intention to contest the election as an independent candidate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the President has outlined plans for Parliamentary elections scheduled for January 2025 and Provincial Council Elections in March 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This strategic timeline is expected to shape the political landscape in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,former minister Ravi Karunanayake, Colombo district leader of the United National Party, attending a press conference held today (09), stated that it has been decided to hold the presidential election in another 9 months and the president is going to contest as a non-partisan candidate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News According to internal political sources, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has made a decision to hold the Presidential Election in September 2024. In a surprising move, he has also declared his intention to contest the election as an independent candidate. Additionally, the President has outlined plans for Parliamentary elections scheduled for January 2025 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-ranil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139569","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=139569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}