{"id":35162,"date":"2014-11-21T13:52:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35162"},"modified":"2014-11-21T13:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T18:52:34","slug":"maithripala-sirisena-pledges-to-abolish-executive-presidency-within-100-days-if-he-emerged-victorious-at-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35162","title":{"rendered":"Maithripala Sirisena Pledges to Abolish Executive Presidency Within 100 Days if He Emerged Victorious at Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Health Minister and General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Maithripala Sirisena today revealed that he would be the &#8216;Common Candidate&#8217; from the opposition to challenge President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming presidential election in January. <\/p>\n<p>Sirisena made the announcement at a tightly packed media briefing held at New Town Hall in Colombo this evening, thus ending days of speculation regarding who will be the much discussed common candidate. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Along with Sirisena and former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MPs Prof. Rajiva Wijesinghe, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, Arjuna Ranatunge, Wasantha Senanayake, M.K.S. Gunawardena and Duminda Dissanayake were all present at the media briefing, where among other things, a pledge was made to abolish the executive presidency within 100 days if Sirisena emerged victorious.   <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Nation <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton35162\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D35162&amp;text=Maithripala%20Sirisena%20Pledges%20to%20Abolish%20Executive%20Presidency%20Within%20100%20Days%20if%20He%20Emerged%20Victorious%20at%20Election&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>Former Health Minister and General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Maithripala Sirisena today revealed that he would be the &#8216;Common Candidate&#8217; from the opposition to challenge President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming presidential election in January. Sirisena made the announcement at a tightly packed media briefing held at New Town Hall in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Maithripala Sirisena Pledges to Abolish Executive Presidency Within 100 Days if He Emerged Victorious at Election&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\/35162"}],"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=35162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35163,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35162\/revisions\/35163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}