{"id":40699,"date":"2015-01-08T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40699"},"modified":"2015-01-08T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:05:42","slug":"maithripala-sirisena-heading-for-victory-in-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/08\/maithripala-sirisena-heading-for-victory-in-the-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Maithripala Sirisena heading for victory in the presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hot News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Based on the postal votes counted in most of the districts and on analysis of some of the \u00a0district results declared so far, the votes in the majority Sinhala areas are equally divided between two candidates \u00a0which makes easy for \u00a0the common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena to get the majority required through the minority votes in the predominantly Mulism and Tamil areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Among the southern districts, In Galle Mahinda Rajapakse received \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srilankanelections.com\/results\/results-main.shtml\"><strong>241,107<\/strong><\/a> votes while Maitripala Sirisena received\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srilankanelections.com\/results\/results-main.shtml\"><strong>315,981<\/strong><\/a>Votes\u00a0\u00a0 and Mahinda Rajapakse lost Badulla electorate also by 2600 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot News Based on the postal votes counted in most of the districts and on analysis of some of the \u00a0district results declared so far, the votes in the majority Sinhala areas are equally divided between two candidates \u00a0which makes easy for \u00a0the common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena to get the majority required through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40699","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=40699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}