{"id":99444,"date":"2020-02-28T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T00:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99444"},"modified":"2020-02-28T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T00:12:17","slug":"submit-referundum-proposals-for-abolition-of-13-and-19-amendmendts-at-the-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/28\/submit-referundum-proposals-for-abolition-of-13-and-19-amendmendts-at-the-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"SUBMIT REFERUNDUM  PROPOSALS FOR ABOLITION OF 13 AND 19 AMENDMENDTS AT THE GENERAL ELECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapakse and his team will be campaigning to obtain 2\/3<sup>rd<\/sup> parliamentary majority for the abolition of the 19th amendment.\u00a0 The opposition, Tamil Diaspora and the like-minded international forces will be resorting to maximum false propaganda to prevent such a majority.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe event the government failing to obtain 2\/3 majority, cross-overs from the\nopposition will be become the only solution to obtain the passage of the\nrequired legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore,\nthe government now has an opportunity to submit proposals for the abolition of\n13 and 19 amendments to a referendum at the general election. This will\nundoubtedly further erode the vote base of minorities for the government, but\nan increase in Sinhala votes could be expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attempting\nto abolish both 13 and 19 simultaneously might be difficult and dangerous, but\nas a minimum referendum proposal relating to 19 amendments could be a practical\nalternative.&nbsp;&nbsp; The proposed new constitution can be framed to do away\nwith the 13 amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE President Gotabaya Rajapakse and his team will be campaigning to obtain 2\/3rd parliamentary majority for the abolition of the 19th amendment.\u00a0 The opposition, Tamil Diaspora and the like-minded international forces will be resorting to maximum false propaganda to prevent such a majority.\u00a0 In the event the government failing to obtain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99444","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=99444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}