{"id":94981,"date":"2019-11-10T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94981"},"modified":"2019-11-10T14:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T21:01:54","slug":"presidents-counsel-ali-sabri-says-that-the-election-commission-has-already-accepted-all-documents-which-renounce-gotabhaya-rajapaksas-american-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/10\/presidents-counsel-ali-sabri-says-that-the-election-commission-has-already-accepted-all-documents-which-renounce-gotabhaya-rajapaksas-american-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Counsel Ali Sabri says that the Election Commission has already accepted all documents which renounce Gotabhaya Rajapaksa\u2019s American Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> His Lawyer, President&rsquo;s Counsel Ali Sabri said that the Presidential Candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has renounced his American Citizenship legally and that reports being published further that he is yet an American Citizen are totally untrue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He said at a special media briefing held in Colombo today that with the participation of a council of lawyers representing Gotabhaya Rajapaksa that all documents in connection with his client renouncing his American Citizenship have already been handed over to the Election Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He said further at the media briefing that all documents have been accepted by the Election Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9c\u0ddd\u0da8\u0dcf\u0db7\u0dba\u0d9c\u0dda \u0db4\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dc0\u0dd0\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0db7\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dba \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0da2\u0db1\u0dcf\u0db0\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0db1\u0dd3\u0dad\u0dd2\u0da5\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dc4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dba - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zt1FYqr6H6Q?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News His Lawyer, President&rsquo;s Counsel Ali Sabri said that the Presidential Candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has renounced his American Citizenship legally and that reports being published further that he is yet an American Citizen are totally untrue. He said at a special media briefing held in Colombo today [&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-94981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94981","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=94981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}