{"id":65357,"date":"2019-08-22T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65357"},"modified":"2019-08-22T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:29:11","slug":"gotabaya-rajapaksa-states-openly-in-the-presence-of-mahinda-rajapaksa-at-slpp-headquarters-meeting-that-there-are-no-barriers-to-his-contesting-the-next-presidential-elections-as-he-has-relinquished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65357","title":{"rendered":"Gotabaya Rajapaksa States Openly in the Presence of Mahinda Rajapaksa at SLPP  Headquarters  Meeting That There Are No Barriers To His Contesting the Next Presidential Elections as he has Relinquished his US Citizenship on May 17th 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said there were no barriers to contesting the upcoming Presidential Elections as a candidate, as his US citizenship was relinquished on 17 May.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa, together with Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, attended a meeting of Local Government Chairmen at SLPP headquarters on Thursday, where he said that he had also obtained a Sri Lankan passport after notifying the Immigration and Emigration Department that he had relinquished his dual citizenship. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many untrue statements being made about my citizenship, and within them there appears to be an effort to create legal issues for me. But I wish to state there are no barriers to my Presidential candidacy. National Organiser Basil Rajapaksa has created a plan for us to win this election, so we must ensure there is no wrongdoing so that strategy can proceed smoothly,\u201d he told the gathering. <\/p>\n<p>Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, speaking at the same event, said irrespective of who the United National Party (UNP) selects as the Presidential candidate, it would not prevent the splintering of the party, the SLPP Media Unit said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA party cannot be unified when there are party members who defy the party leadership. Today a group of detractors have emerged from within the UNP, and no matter who is named as the Presidential candidate, these clashes will only intensify. Even if Ranil Wickremesinghe, Karu Jayasuriya and Sajith Premadasa come together and contest the Presidential Elections, there will be no change to the people\u2019s decision to elect the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton65357\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D65357&amp;text=Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20States%20Openly%20in%20the%20Presence%20of%20Mahinda%20Rajapaksa%20at%20SLPP%20%20Headquarters%20%20Meeting%20That...%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>Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said there were no barriers to contesting the upcoming Presidential Elections as a candidate, as his US citizenship was relinquished on 17 May. Rajapaksa, together with Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, attended a meeting of Local Government Chairmen at SLPP headquarters on Thursday, where he said &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Gotabaya Rajapaksa States Openly in the Presence of Mahinda Rajapaksa at SLPP  Headquarters  Meeting That There Are No Barriers To His Contesting the Next Presidential Elections as he has Relinquished his US Citizenship on May 17th 2019&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\/65357"}],"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=65357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65358,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65357\/revisions\/65358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}