{"id":59276,"date":"2016-10-02T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T15:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59276"},"modified":"2016-10-02T01:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T08:51:02","slug":"executive-presidency-will-be-abolished-says-pm-when-asked-if-he-will-contest-next-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/02\/executive-presidency-will-be-abolished-says-pm-when-asked-if-he-will-contest-next-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Presidency\u00a0will be abolished\u00a0says PM  &#8230;.. when asked if he will contest next presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by Zacki Jabbar in Auckland New Zealand\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that the government was planning to abolish the Executive Presidency at the end\u00a0 of President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s current term.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by a Sri Lankan domiciled in New Zealand during\u00a0 a reception hosted for him at the\u00a0 Auckland City Council, if he would contest the next Presidential election, Wickremesinghe replied &#8221; We are working on scrapping the Executive Presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said that it had still not been decided\u00a0 as to which system would replace the Executive Presidency.&#8221; Whether its powers would be fully transferred to Parliament or a combination of the national legislature, Senate and Provincial Councils is being\u00a0discussed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zacki Jabbar in Auckland New Zealand\u00a0Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that the government was planning to abolish the Executive Presidency at the end\u00a0 of President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s current term. Asked by a Sri Lankan domiciled in New Zealand during\u00a0 a reception hosted for him at the\u00a0 Auckland City Council, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59276","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=59276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}