{"id":44658,"date":"2015-06-12T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44658"},"modified":"2015-06-12T04:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:16:29","slug":"cabinet-approves-20a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/06\/12\/cabinet-approves-20a\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves 20A 145 FPP and 55 PR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Cabinet today approved the 20th Amendment to the Constitution with the proposed number of parliamentary seats increased to 237 from the current 225. \u00a0 Accordingly, 145 MPs will be elected under the first-past-the-post (FPP) system and 55 under the district proportional representation (PR) system. \u00a0 The Cabinet has directed the Attorney General\u2019s Department to issue the Gazette notification on Monday.\u00a0(Kelum Bandara) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/76151\/cabinet-passes-20a#sthash.XFPjiHQm.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Cabinet today approved the 20th Amendment to the Constitution with the proposed number of parliamentary seats increased to 237 from the current 225. \u00a0 Accordingly, 145 MPs will be elected under the first-past-the-post (FPP) system and 55 under the district proportional representation (PR) system. \u00a0 The Cabinet has directed 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-44658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658","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=44658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}