{"id":89635,"date":"2019-05-31T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T22:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89635"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T22:25:03","slug":"president-undecided-on-contesting-for-upcoming-presidential-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/31\/president-undecided-on-contesting-for-upcoming-presidential-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"President undecided on contesting for upcoming presidential polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena says that he is not in a hurry to make his decision on contesting for the upcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President, who is currently in India for the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at a press conference held in New Delhi stated that he is waiting for the other political parties to decide their presidential candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further commenting, President Sirisena said the presidential election is slated to be held on December 7th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Elections Commission has made a statement in this regard, the President added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says that he is not in a hurry to make his decision on contesting for the upcoming presidential election. The President, who is currently in India for the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at a press conference held in New Delhi stated that he is waiting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89635","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=89635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}