{"id":12227,"date":"2022-12-04T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=12227"},"modified":"2022-12-04T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T16:15:31","slug":"opposition-leader-calls-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/opposition-leader-calls-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader calls for elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today called for elections for the people to decide who should govern the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Parliament, the Opposition Leader said that the people should be given a mandate to either elect a new Government or maintain the same Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat mandate should be given an opportunity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Premadasa said that the international community and the opposition are not satisfied with the reforms undertaken by the Government.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the international community are talking about economic crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition Leader said that the Government must implement a process to address economic crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today called for elections for the people to decide who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12228,"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-12227","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\/12227","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=12227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12229,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12227\/revisions\/12229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}