{"id":55252,"date":"2017-09-17T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T19:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=55252"},"modified":"2017-09-17T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T19:53:33","slug":"all-future-elections-in-sri-lanka-will-be-held-under-the-first-past-the-post-winner-system-says-president-sirisena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=55252","title":{"rendered":"All Future Elections in Sri Lanka will Be Held Under the First Past The Post Winner System says President Sirisena."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Maithripala Sirisena says all future elections will be held on the first-past-the-post system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President says action will be taken to conduct the next parliamentary and provincial council election under that system.<\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena said so addressing a group of North Central Provincial Councillors and SLFP Parliamentarians in Colombo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The President discussed with Provincial Councillors and MPS the ways and means of strengthening the SLFP and preparing the party for future elections.<\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena said people had given him a mandate at the 2015 Presidential election to change the current electoral system and to introduce a new one beneficial to the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton55252\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D55252&amp;text=All%20Future%20Elections%20in%20Sri%20Lanka%20will%20Be%20Held%20Under%20the%20First%20Past%20The%20Post%20Winner%20System%20says%20President...%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>President Maithripala Sirisena says all future elections will be held on the first-past-the-post system. The President says action will be taken to conduct the next parliamentary and provincial council election under that system. President Sirisena said so addressing a group of North Central Provincial Councillors and SLFP Parliamentarians in Colombo on Saturday.<\/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\/55252"}],"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=55252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55253,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55252\/revisions\/55253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}