{"id":4615,"date":"2018-11-25T06:02:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T06:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2018-11-25T06:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T06:02:57","slug":"pc-polls-should-be-held-before-any-elections-caffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/pc-polls-should-be-held-before-any-elections-caffe\/","title":{"rendered":"PC polls should be held before any elections: CaFFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Provincial Council (PC) elections should held before holding any elections, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) Executive Director Keerthi Tennakoon said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking to the Daily Mirror, he said the priority should be for the PC polls and added it was neither the presidential election nor the parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cAs far as the prevailing political crisis is concerned, it is apparent that there is a need for a general election,\u201d Tennakoon said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cHowever, the PC election has been delaying for fourteen months and the tenures of six of nine Provincial councils has been expired,\u201d Tennakoon added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Accordingly, he said the Provincial Councils such as Eastern, Sabaragamuwa, North Central, North, North Western and Central had been already dissolved<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He proceeded to say that going for either general election or presidential election was optional and it would depend on the prevailing state of affairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, he said the nominations for the presidential election should be called for on October 15, 2019 and it was due to be held on December 8, 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cAs it is evident, the recent Governments have postponed elections especially the Local Government election. But when it comes to the presidential elections, they can\u2019t do so,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Provincial Council (PC) elections should held before holding any elections, Campaign for Free&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4616,"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-4615","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\/4615","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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}