{"id":96634,"date":"2019-12-19T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96634"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:37:55","slug":"president-hints-at-date-of-parliament-dissolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/19\/president-hints-at-date-of-parliament-dissolution\/","title":{"rendered":"President hints at date of parliament dissolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was a grave mistake and that it is a major obstacle to the country\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President expressed these views at a meeting held with Colombo-based foreign correspondents of foreign media, today (19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dda\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dc0 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dcf \u0dc4\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0db1 \u0daf\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dba \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0da2\u0db1\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0d89\u0d9f\u0dd2\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOa-dAB-tVg?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\n\n\n<p>President Rajapaksa further said that Sri Lanka will go for a general election after dissolving the parliament on the 03rd of March, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary to the President P. B. Jayasundara, too, was present at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was a grave mistake and that it is a major obstacle to the country\u2019s progress. The President expressed these views at a meeting held with Colombo-based foreign correspondents of foreign media, today (19). President Rajapaksa further said that Sri Lanka will go [&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-96634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96634","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=96634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}