{"id":4333,"date":"2018-10-26T05:27:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2018-10-26T05:27:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:27:37","slug":"british-high-commissioner-raises-concerns-over-delay-in-holding-provincial-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/british-high-commissioner-raises-concerns-over-delay-in-holding-provincial-council-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"British High Commissioner Raises Concerns Over Delay In Holding Provincial Council Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka James Dauris expressed concerns over delays in Sri Lanka\u2019s Provincial Council elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cMany people will be disappointed that the term in office of a sixth of Sri Lanka\u2019s nine Provincial Councils has expired without voting for new representatives taking place or planned,\u201d Dauris tweeted this morning, a day after the terms of Provincial Councils expired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cTimely elections are key to ensuring that the values of democracy flourish in our countries,\u201d the British High Commissioner also said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dauris\u2019s statement also follows a strongly-worded letter from Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya to all main political parties, last week, over delays in holding the Provincial Council elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In his letter, Dehsapriya said the prolonged delay would undermine the democratic rights of Sri Lankan citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The senior state official also said in his letter that getting officials to run provincial councils was undemocratic and would draw parallels with a dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Provincial Council elections have been delayed due to strong disagreements among the main political parties over the electoral system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Elections Commission is not in a position to take measures to hold the Provincial Council election as work of the Delimitation Review Committee, headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, is currently underway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka James Dauris expressed concerns over delays in Sri&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4334,"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-4333","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\/4333","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=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}