{"id":7263,"date":"2019-09-29T10:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T10:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2019-09-29T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T10:19:27","slug":"im-not-ready-to-retire-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/im-not-ready-to-retire-president\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not ready to retire: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday that he is not ready to retire and a new step will be taken after December.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The President said that he is in good health and would not retire in order to continue his agenda for the country and the people.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cSome people may be thinking that I will disappear since I haven\u2019t said that I will contest for the presidential elections,\u201d he said speaking at an event in Polonnaruwa on Saturday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The President said a new phase of the country\u2019s development program as well as the Polonnaruwa development would be launched in next December.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The ceremony was held to mark the opening of the Polonnaruwa Isipathana Welfare Society\u2019s Community Hall.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The President also vested the OPD, clinical and administrative building constructed at the Welikanda Regional Hospital at a cost of Rs. 213 million with the public.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday that he is not ready to retire and a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","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=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}