{"id":1533,"date":"2017-07-05T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T10:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2017-07-05T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T10:59:47","slug":"chief-prelates-decide-no-need-for-a-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/chief-prelates-decide-no-need-for-a-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Prelates decide no need for a new Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chief Prelates of the three main Buddhist chapters today decided there is no need for a new Constitution in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chief Prelates reached the decision following a discussion held this evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The decision puts a major barricade to Government efforts to draft a new Constitution which will include electoral reforms and a political solution to the Tamil issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Parliament has already commenced the process of drafting a new Constitution or amending the existing one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Making changes to the current Constitution was an election pledge of President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Prelates of the three main Buddhist chapters today decided there is no&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1534,"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-1533","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\/1533","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=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}