{"id":145416,"date":"2024-10-31T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145416"},"modified":"2024-10-31T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:36:31","slug":"ranil-speaks-out-against-revoking-privileges-of-former-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/31\/ranil-speaks-out-against-revoking-privileges-of-former-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil speaks out against revoking privileges of former Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe stresses that the privileges granted to former Presidents of the country should remain intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a rally in Matale, Wickremesinghe emphasized that he does not require any privileges for himself and that the government must prioritize the safety of other former presidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the rally, he remarked, Presidential residences are being removed. I don\u2019t have a problem. I don\u2019t live in a residence. It\u2019s not a problem for me. Why are they chasing behind Chandrika? Just let her be in that house. I have nothing special, but for humanity\u2026 If Mahinda Rajapaksa requires security for himself\u2026he is the one who ended the war, think about it\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further stated that if there are genuine security concerns, those should be addressed to anyone in need.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Remove all the privileges provided to me, give it to others\u2026Now it has been said that the salaries will be increased. Do what is said. Everyone\u2019s support is there. I just ask them to protect this Parliament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe stresses that the privileges granted to former Presidents of the country should remain intact. Speaking at a rally in Matale, Wickremesinghe emphasized that he does not require any privileges for himself and that the government must prioritize the safety of other former presidents. Addressing the rally, he remarked, Presidential [&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-145416","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\/145416","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=145416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}