{"id":4324,"date":"2018-10-25T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2018-10-25T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:21:17","slug":"northern-provincial-council-term-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/northern-provincial-council-term-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Provincial Council term ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The term of the Northern Provincial Council ended last night. The last Northern Provincial Council was elected to office in September 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">C.V. Wigneswaran contested under the Tamil National Alliance and won the election and was appointed Chief Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, British High Commissioner James Dauris raised concerns over the delay to hold elections for the Provincial Councils for which the terms have ended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cMany people will be disappointed that the term in office of a sixth of #SriLanka\u2019s nine Provincial Councils has expired without voting for new representatives taking place or planned. Timely #elections are key to ensuring that the values of #democracy flourish in our countries,\u201d James Dauris tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term of the Northern Provincial Council ended last night. The last Northern Provincial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4325,"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-4324","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\/4324","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=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}