{"id":82980,"date":"2018-11-10T00:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T06:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82980"},"modified":"2018-11-09T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:19:54","slug":"fresh-elections-to-lankan-parliament-on-january-5-2019-new-parliament-will-meet-on-january-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/10\/fresh-elections-to-lankan-parliament-on-january-5-2019-new-parliament-will-meet-on-january-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh elections to Lankan parliament on January 5, 2019, new parliament will meet on January 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"social-sharethis-post\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Colombo, Nov 9 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, late on Friday dissolved Parliament amid a severe political crisis which erupted in the island since Oct 26, a gazette notification said.<\/p>\n<p>The notification also said that elections to parliament will be held on January 5, 2019 and the newly elected House will meet on January 17.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Fresh elections to Lankan parliament on January 5, 2019, new parliament will meet on January 17\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Maithripala-Sirisena-in-a-defiant-mood.-Presidents-Media-Division.jpg?fit=638%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fresh elections to Lankan parliament on January 5, 2019, new parliament will meet on January 17\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The gazette notification said that the President is using his powers under Art 33\u00a0 read with paragraph 5 of Art 70 and paragraph 2 of Art 62 to dissolve parliament and set dates for fresh elections and the re-assembly of the newly elected parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Art\u00a0 33 (2) says: The President shall have the power to summon, prorogue and dissolve Parliament. Paragraph (5) of Art 70 says that a Proclamation dissolving Parliament shall fix a date\u00a0or dates for the election of Members of Parliament, and shall summon the new Parliament to meet on a date not later than three months after the date of such Proclamation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Nov 9 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, late on Friday dissolved Parliament amid a severe political crisis which erupted in the island since Oct 26, a gazette notification said. The notification also said that elections to parliament will be held on January 5, 2019 and the newly elected House will [&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-82980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82980","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=82980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}