{"id":37034,"date":"2015-01-09T04:44:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T09:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37034"},"modified":"2015-01-09T07:48:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T12:48:16","slug":"sri-lanka-has-proved-its-credentials-as-a-maturepeaceful-democracy-ranil-wickremesinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37034","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sri Lanka has Proved its Credentials as a Mature,Peaceful Democracy&#8221; &#8211; Ranil Wickremesinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Text of Statement  issued by Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe Leader  of the Opposition and United National Party)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka has proved its credentials as a mature, peaceful democracy as the victory of Opposition Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena is resounding across the country. <\/p>\n<p>The quality of democracy in any country is revealed not only in the magnanimity of the victors of popular franchise, but the graciousness of the defeated. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We thank President Mahinda Rajapaksa for enabling a smooth, peaceful and civilised transition. <\/p>\n<p>We also owe a debt of gratitude to Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya who stood strong in the face of pressure to ensure the integrity and credibility of the election on January 8, 2015. <\/p>\n<p>The police and the security forces personnel must also be appreciated for their contribution to keeping the peace and ensuring the safety of the citizenry during election day.<\/p>\n<p>To the voters who placed their trust and confidence in us we owe you our allegiance and our respect<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton37034\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D37034&amp;text=%26%238220%3BSri%20Lanka%20has%20Proved%20its%20Credentials%20as%20a%20Mature%2CPeaceful%20Democracy%26%238221%3B%20%26%238211%3B%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe&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>(Text of Statement issued by Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe Leader of the Opposition and United National Party) Sri Lanka has proved its credentials as a mature, peaceful democracy as the victory of Opposition Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena is resounding across the country. The quality of democracy in any country is revealed not only in the magnanimity &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=37034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Sri Lanka has Proved its Credentials as a Mature,Peaceful Democracy&#8221; &#8211; Ranil Wickremesinghe&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\/37034"}],"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=37034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37035,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37034\/revisions\/37035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}