{"id":90181,"date":"2019-06-11T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90181"},"modified":"2019-06-11T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:57:42","slug":"gotabaya-to-be-slpp-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/11\/gotabaya-to-be-slpp-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabaya to be SLPP presidential candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa could be the next presidential candidate, according to SLPP MP Basil Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned this following a meeting with the Chairman of the Elections Commission along with Party Secretaries and representatives, today (11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting to the media, Basil Rajapaksa stated that the Elections Commission has made a promise on holding the elections today as well as on earlier occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that there might be a Presidential election soon and that a suitable candidate will appear on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That candidate might be Gotabaya Rajapaksa as well, he further said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa could be the next presidential candidate, according to SLPP MP Basil Rajapaksa. He mentioned this following a meeting with the Chairman of the Elections Commission along with Party Secretaries and representatives, today (11). Commenting to the media, Basil Rajapaksa stated that the Elections Commission has made a promise [&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-90181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90181","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=90181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}