{"id":41181,"date":"2015-05-06T17:11:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41181"},"modified":"2015-05-06T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:13:35","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-will-not-be-nominated-as-prime-ministerial-candidate-of-the-slfp-before-next-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41181","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena Tells Mahinda Rajapaksa that he  will not be Nominated as Prime Ministerial Candidate of the SLFP Before Next Elections."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by<\/p>\n<p>Rasika Jayakody<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday told former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in no uncertain terms that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) would not nominate a Prime Ministerial candidate before the next Parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p>At the discussion held between the two warring factions within the SLFP, President Sirisena explained the \u201cdisadvantages\u201d of naming a Prime Ministerial candidate before the election. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The President made his position clear when former President Rajapaksa\u2019s group said the SLFP should name its Prime Ministerial candidate in the party\u2019s run-up to the election.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhen the name of the Prime Ministerial candidate is announced, it can be counter-productive to the party\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it is important to draw the support of minority voters into the party at the next election.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton41181\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D41181&amp;text=President%20Sirisena%20Tells%20Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20that%20he%20%20will%20not%20be%20Nominated%20as%20Prime%20Ministerial%20Candidate%20of...%20&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 Rasika Jayakody President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday told former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in no uncertain terms that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) would not nominate a Prime Ministerial candidate before the next Parliamentary election. At the discussion held between the two warring factions within the SLFP, President Sirisena explained the \u201cdisadvantages\u201d of naming a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;President Sirisena Tells Mahinda Rajapaksa that he  will not be Nominated as Prime Ministerial Candidate of the SLFP Before Next Elections.&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\/41181"}],"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=41181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41183,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41181\/revisions\/41183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}