{"id":34080,"date":"2014-10-13T02:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T06:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=34080"},"modified":"2014-10-13T02:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T06:22:02","slug":"next-presidential-election-will-be-held-before-january-15th-2015-says-keheliya-rambukwella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=34080","title":{"rendered":"Next Presidential Election will be held Before January 15th 2015 says Keheliya Rambukwella."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nby <\/p>\n<p>Zacki Jabbar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next Presidential election was likely to be  held  before Jan. 13 2015 the government said on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who is also the Cabinet Spokesman, when asked    for a tentative date for the Presidential Poll amidst various time frames  ranging  between January to March being mentioned by members within the ruling UPFA , told The Island that  it might be held  around mid January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Queried if the election  would be conducted before or after Pope Francis\u2019s visit to Sri Lanka, which is due to take place from January 13 to 15, the Minister replied  &#8220;I think it will be before his arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> The final vote on the budget is to be taken on November 24 and not much time is left between then and Jan. 13. Asked if there was enough time for campaign purposes and polls preparations, Minister Rambukwella said   that it would not be an issue since the relevant authorities had previously organised elections at short notice.<\/p>\n<p>The UNP which is campaigning for the abolition of the Executive Presidency said that it had no objection to Rajapaksa seeking a third term since it was confident of winning the Presidential race. It has called on all Opposition parties including some in the government to support Wickremesinghe as their common candidate.<br \/>\n<em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton34080\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D34080&amp;text=Next%20Presidential%20Election%20will%20be%20held%20Before%20January%2015th%202015%20says%20Keheliya%20Rambukwella.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zacki Jabbar The next Presidential election was likely to be held before Jan. 13 2015 the government said on Friday night. Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who is also the Cabinet Spokesman, when asked for a tentative date for the Presidential Poll amidst various time frames ranging between January to March being mentioned by members &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=34080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Next Presidential Election will be held Before January 15th 2015 says Keheliya Rambukwella.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34081,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions\/34081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}