{"id":4968,"date":"2018-12-29T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2018-12-29T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T11:48:35","slug":"defeat-extremism-abolish-executive-presidency-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/defeat-extremism-abolish-executive-presidency-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeat extremism, abolish executive presidency: Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has urged all concerned citizens to work towards defeating extremism and the abolishing of the executive presidency in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">He said this at an inter-religious congress held at his official residence on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">\u201cIt seems that religious and ethnic extremism has raised its head again. This seems to have been shaped by politics. It is important that the inter-religious congress takes steps to arrest this trend,\u201d the Speaker said. \u201cDon\u2019t let politicians spread extremism using temples and other places of worship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">He requested the inter-religious congress to work towards abolishing the executive presidency which is not good for democracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">\u201cI have been backing the abolition of the executive presidency and I dedicated myself to the abolishing of the executive presidency after the famous North-Western Province elections in 1999.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The Inter-Religious congress requested the Speaker to bringing about a truce between the President and the Prime Minister to ensure that there was stability in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has urged all concerned citizens to work towards defeating extremism and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4969,"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-4968","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\/4968","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=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}