{"id":95324,"date":"2019-11-17T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T22:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95324"},"modified":"2019-11-17T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T22:36:33","slug":"presidential-election-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/17\/presidential-election-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Election 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">MEDIA RELEASE Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader of the Opposition<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The candidate of the Sri\nLanka Podujana Peramuna, Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Joint Opposition,\nGotabhaya Rajapaksa has won a decisive victory at this presidential election. I\nrequest all our party activists and supporters to celebrate this victory\npeacefully and without causing inconvenience to anyone. The people have voted\ndecisively in our favour at this election because of disaffection with the\nconduct of this government over the past five years. Therefore it is our duty\nby the people of this country, to conduct ourselves in a manner that will not\ninconvenience anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be initiating\na programme of action to deliver justice to all those who have been subject to\npersecution and harassment by this government over the past five years. I\nsalute the people of Sri Lanka for decisively defeating the 2015 style attempt\nmade to once again purloin the mandate of the people through backroom deals with\nvarious chauvinistic ethnic and religious groupings organized around narrow\npolitical agendas. The time has now come to put an end to this dangerous game\nof promoting religious and ethnic chauvinism for political purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This presidential\nelection differs from all previous presidential elections, because of the\ncomplications in the system of governance brought about by the 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Amendment.\nAfter the new President takes oaths, we will be studying the provisions of the\n19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Amendment to the Constitution and planning our immediate\nprogramme of action accordingly. We now have an opportunity to give a sense of\ndirection to this country which has been drifting rudderless for five years. As\nstated in our candidate\u2019s election manifesto,&nbsp;it will be necessary to\nrebuild the economy from the bottom upwards and to introduce constitutional and\nlegal reforms to achieve this objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will keep the\npeople informed about further developments in this regard in the coming days.\nIn the face of the unequivocal people\u2019s mandate delivered at this election, we\nbelieve the government will abide by parliamentary traditions as appropriate in\nsuch circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victory to the\nmotherland and to the patriotic people of Sri Lanka!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leader of the Opposition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA RELEASE Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader of the Opposition The candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Joint Opposition, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has won a decisive victory at this presidential election. I request all our party activists and supporters to celebrate this victory peacefully and without causing inconvenience to anyone. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mahinda-rajapaksa","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95324","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=95324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}