{"id":1166,"date":"2017-05-04T05:16:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T05:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2017-05-04T05:16:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T05:16:56","slug":"jvp-demands-president-to-abolish-executive-powers-as-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/jvp-demands-president-to-abolish-executive-powers-as-promised\/","title":{"rendered":"JVP demands President to abolish executive powers as promised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today demanded President Maithripala Sirisena to abolish the Executive Presidency as promised before he won the 2015 election.<\/p>\n<p>JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that the main election pledge given by the Government was that the executive powers of the President will be abolished.<\/p>\n<p>He said that through the 19th Amendment the Government only amended the powers of the Executive Presidential system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the President was given a mandate to abolish the Executive Presidency,\u201d Anura Kumara Dissanayake said.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Anura Kumara Dissanayake says the JVP will launch a campaign to push for the Executive Presidency to be abolished.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the JVP has had talks with the Tamil National Alliance, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress and the Communist Party on a new Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Dissanayake says the JVP also hopes to meet President Maithripala Sirisena in this regard. Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today demanded President Maithripala Sirisena to abolish the Executive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}