{"id":11993,"date":"2022-07-18T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11993"},"modified":"2022-07-18T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:56:25","slug":"mps-receive-threats-ahead-of-presidential-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mps-receive-threats-ahead-of-presidential-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs receive threats ahead of Presidential vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Parliamentarians, including those from the ruling parties, have complained they have received threats from individuals, saying they would face consequences if they vote for Ranil Wickremesinghe in Wednesday&#8217;s Presidential vote, the Daily Mirror learns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Parliamentarians said they had received threats from individuals on their social media accounts that they would face the brunt if their votes were cast for Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Police Headquarters has already instructed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to launch an investigation on those publishing certain posts on social media threatening the parliamentarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said it has been observed that various posts are being published on social media platforms threatening parliamentarians if Wickremesinghe wins the Presidential vote on Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Parliamentarians, including those from the ruling parties, have complained they have received threats&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993","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=11993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11995,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions\/11995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}