{"id":83382,"date":"2018-11-17T23:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83382"},"modified":"2018-11-17T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T18:00:23","slug":"mahinda-could-have-waited-for-a-year-and-half-but-can-the-country-gotabaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/17\/mahinda-could-have-waited-for-a-year-and-half-but-can-the-country-gotabaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda could have waited for a year and half, but can the country? &#8211; Gotabaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that Mahinda Rajapaksa could have become Prime Minister with a two-thirds majority in Parliament if he had waited for elections in a year and a half, but questioned whether the country could wait that long.<\/p>\n<p>He made these comments while addressing a seminar of the Eliya\u201d (light) organisation held in Avissawella today (17).<\/p>\n<p>He stated that some people ask whether Mahinda Rajapaksa could have taken the premiership with a two-thirds majority if he had waited for another year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>I know very well that Mahinda Rajapaksa could have done that. But the problem is whether this country can wait for another one and a half years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ranil Wickremesinghe government was created by foreign powers,\u201d he claimed, <strong>while adding that when it was announced that the no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister and government was passed in the Parliament, the diplomats from western nations who were in the gallery had clapped their hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mahinda could have waited for a year and half, but can the country? - Gotabaya\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-eb4rajV-vs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that Mahinda Rajapaksa could have become Prime Minister with a two-thirds majority in Parliament if he had waited for elections in a year and a half, but questioned whether the country could wait that long. He made these comments while addressing a seminar of the Eliya\u201d (light) [&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-83382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83382","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=83382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}