{"id":1998,"date":"2017-10-26T19:47:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2017-10-26T19:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:47:59","slug":"joint-opposition-says-no-mandate-for-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/joint-opposition-says-no-mandate-for-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint opposition says no mandate for new Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The joint opposition says the Government does not have a mandate for a new Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Joint opposition member, Professor G.L Peiris said that President Maithripala Sirisena never spoke of a new Constitution when he contested the 2015 Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said the joint opposition opposes the interim report submitted to Parliament on a new Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former Foreign Minister also alleged that the Government was looking to draft a new Constitution to pacify the international community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The joint opposition says the Government does not have a mandate for a new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1999,"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-1998","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\/1998","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=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}