{"id":44010,"date":"2015-05-20T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44010"},"modified":"2015-05-20T00:36:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T07:36:17","slug":"new-parliament-by-september-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/20\/new-parliament-by-september-president\/","title":{"rendered":"New Parliament by September &#8211; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena today said that the Sri Lankan Parliament will be dissolved after appointing a constitutional council and that there will be a new Parliament by September.<\/p>\n<p>The President made this announcement during a meeting with heads of media organisations at the Presidential Secretariat this morning.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that in the past the appointing of representatives to the constitutional council was done according to a single person\u2019s decision and that as per the 19th amendment to the constitution the appointments will henceforth be made based on the collective decision of a group as it is more democratic.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena said that the government\u2019s next mandate will be the General Election and that a final agreement has still not been reached with regard to which electoral system will be employed for the election.<\/p>\n<p>Relevant discussions on the matter would take place today, he said, adding that he too imagines that the masses would require some time to get accustomed to a new electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>The President said he believes that a majority of Parliamentarians would prefer the General Election this year being held under the existing system. However, he said that the Parliament has been granted the space to reach a final decision on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena, who is the Leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), said that he has issued instruction for the commencement of preparing party nominations for the upcoming election from today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena today said that the Sri Lankan Parliament will be dissolved after appointing a constitutional council and that there will be a new Parliament by September. The President made this announcement during a meeting with heads of media organisations at the Presidential Secretariat this morning. He stated that in the past [&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-44010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010","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=44010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}