{"id":9540,"date":"2020-08-14T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2020-08-14T06:56:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:56:13","slug":"president-seeking-more-than-two-terms-not-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/president-seeking-more-than-two-terms-not-ruled-out\/","title":{"rendered":"President seeking more than two terms not ruled out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The possibility of the President seeking more than two terms in office through a new Constitution has not been ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water Supply and Drainage Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara said that with the majority the new Government has received in Parliament a new Constitution will be drafted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSome limitations on the President\u2019s powers introduced through the 19th Amendment to the Constitution will be removed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that the contents of the new Constitution has not yet been discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nanayakkara said that all the elected members of Parliament will need to meet and debate the contents of the Constitution before it is passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if there is a move to give the President more than two terms in office through a new Constitution, Nanayakkara did not rule out that possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe now have a 2\/3rd majority. So anything is possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if there is a proposal to introduce a Deputy Prime Minister post, Nanayakkara said that no such proposal has been discussed with the new Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that such a post can be created only through a new Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of the President seeking more than two terms in office through a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9541,"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-9540","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\/9540","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=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}