{"id":7508,"date":"2019-11-10T06:13:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T06:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2019-11-10T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T06:13:22","slug":"gotabaya-rajapaksas-name-not-on-the-latest-u-s-federal-register-of-denounced-citizens-minister-harin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/gotabaya-rajapaksas-name-not-on-the-latest-u-s-federal-register-of-denounced-citizens-minister-harin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s name not on the latest U.S. Federal Register of denounced citizens- Minister Harin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The latest Federal Registry released by the US government doesn&#8217;t include Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s name, under those who renounced US citizenship by 30 Sept 2019, despite his claims giving up US nationality on May 3, 2019, Minister Harin Fernando said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Accordingly, Gotabaya Rajapaksa will remain a citizen of the United States and will not be able to function as President even if he is elected into office. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Minister Fernando tweeted that when Gotabaya Rajapaksa&#8217;s name was not in the previous quarter report his spokesmen insisted that it will definitely be carried in the 3rd quarter report. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">According to Minister Fernando, the 2019 presidential battle has become a struggle between a genuine Sri Lankan and an American citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Federal Registry released by the US government doesn&#8217;t include Sri Lanka Podujana&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7509,"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-7508","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\/7508","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=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}