{"id":143567,"date":"2024-08-18T16:45:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T23:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143567"},"modified":"2024-08-18T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T23:45:31","slug":"sajith-pledges-to-abolish-executive-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/18\/sajith-pledges-to-abolish-executive-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith pledges to abolish Executive Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"glightbox h6 inner_other\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/YOHAN-PERERA\/593\">YOHAN PERERA\u00a0 Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Ruwanwella, August 18 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today pledged to abolish the Executive Presidency if he is elected President next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premadasa made this pledge during a rally at Ruwanwella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A number of past Presidents have pledged to abolish the Executive Presidency but never did it. I will do it and introduce a system based on the legislature,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOHAN PERERA\u00a0 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ruwanwella, August 18 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today pledged to abolish the Executive Presidency if he is elected President next month. Premadasa made this pledge during a rally at Ruwanwella. &#8220;A number of past Presidents have pledged to abolish the Executive Presidency but never did it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,161,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sajith-premadasa","category-samagi-jana-balawegaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143567","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=143567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}