{"id":8589,"date":"2020-04-24T04:53:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2020-04-24T04:53:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:53:37","slug":"karu-rejects-reports-of-reconvening-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/karu-rejects-reports-of-reconvening-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Karu rejects reports of reconvening parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday rejected the reports that said he would reconvene the Parliament unilaterally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">&#8220;While fighting Covid-19, Sri Lanka does not want another constitutional crisis. Therefore, rumours that I would reconvene the Parliament unilaterally are false. All efforts must be taken by the Executive to avert a crisis. In a dispute, I am bound to uphold judiciary\u2019s decision,&#8221; he tweeted yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Yesterday, Mr. Jayasuriya said as the election date has been fixed now, all effort must be made not to allow a constitutional crisis that can cost the nation dearly of its economy and legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">&#8220;With good faith, I hope Sri Lanka can confine Covid-19 to a health and economic challenge, not a political one too,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday rejected the reports that said he would reconvene the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8590,"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-8589","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\/8589","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=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}