{"id":4764,"date":"2018-12-10T06:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T06:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2018-12-10T06:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T06:02:48","slug":"mahinda-reiterates-call-for-parliament-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mahinda-reiterates-call-for-parliament-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda reiterates call for Parliament polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today reiterated calls for an early Parliament election, saying that is the only way the current political crisis can be resolved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking to reporters today, Rajapaksa said that the political situation in the country was a mess and the public are calling for a Parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Asked what his next step will be based on the ruling the Supreme Court gives on the dissolution of Parliament, Rajapaksa said that he will need to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, Rajapaksa said that he does not do politics based on positions or posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that he will continue to do politics as long as he has the support of the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today reiterated calls for an early Parliament election, saying that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4765,"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-4764","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\/4764","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=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}