{"id":139928,"date":"2024-01-22T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139928"},"modified":"2024-01-22T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:41:12","slug":"government-with-6-9-mn-mandate-shattered-by-its-own-leaders-sb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/22\/government-with-6-9-mn-mandate-shattered-by-its-own-leaders-sb\/","title":{"rendered":"Government with 6.9 mn mandate shattered by its own leaders: SB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Jan 22 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The government which was formed with a 6.9 million mandate and a two-thirds majority was shattered by its own leaders, Parliamentarian S.B. Dissanayake said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am dissapointed that the government formed with a 6.9 million mandate and a two-thirds majority was shattered by our own leaders,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP said even though the President had powers to dissolve Parliament at any time now, no one can change the Presidential election which is due in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told reporters that the President can dissolve parliament at any time after four years, according to the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The President or Parliament have powers to decide upon the dates of some elections. However, no one can decide the date of the Presidential election due in October,&#8221; he said.<\/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=\"Government with 6.9 mn mandate shattered by its own leaders: SB\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eCAaXtF57ro?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 22 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; The government which was formed with a 6.9 million mandate and a two-thirds majority was shattered by its own leaders, Parliamentarian S.B. Dissanayake said today. &#8220;I am dissapointed that the government formed with a 6.9 million mandate and a two-thirds majority was shattered by our [&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-139928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139928","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=139928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}