{"id":65436,"date":"2019-08-30T00:37:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65436"},"modified":"2019-08-30T00:37:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T04:37:13","slug":"unp-party-constitution-article-9-stipulates-that-presidential-election-candidate-can-be-named-by-nomination-board-only-after-elections-commissioner-announces-poll-and-calls-for-nominations-says-unp-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65436","title":{"rendered":"UNP Party Constitution Article 9  Stipulates That Presidential Election Candidate Can be Named by Nomination Board Only After Elections Commissioner Announces Poll and Calls for Nominations Says UNP Legal Secretary Nissanka Nanayakkara."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By<\/p>\n<p>Yohan Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UNP Legal Secretary Nissanka Nanayakkara today said the candidate for the presidential election could be named only after the Election Commission notify the date to accept nominations for the election.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nanayakkara issuing a statement said UNP\u2019s constitution does not have provisions to name a candidate until such time election commission declares the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also, he said the candidate will be decided by a nomination board. \u201cThe nomination board will decide on the candidate and this decision will have to be ratified by the working committee of the party according to article 9(e) of the constitution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This provision, he said, was introduced to the party\u2019s constitution during the time of the late President J. R. Jayewardene.<\/p>\n<p><em>  Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton65436\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D65436&amp;text=UNP%20Party%20Constitution%20Article%209%20%20Stipulates%20That%20Presidential%20Election%20Candidate%20Can%20be%20Named%20by%20Nomination...%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 Yohan Perera UNP Legal Secretary Nissanka Nanayakkara today said the candidate for the presidential election could be named only after the Election Commission notify the date to accept nominations for the election. Mr. Nanayakkara issuing a statement said UNP\u2019s constitution does not have provisions to name a candidate until such time election commission declares &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=65436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;UNP Party Constitution Article 9  Stipulates That Presidential Election Candidate Can be Named by Nomination Board Only After Elections Commissioner Announces Poll and Calls for Nominations Says UNP Legal Secretary Nissanka Nanayakkara.&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\/65436"}],"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=65436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65437,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65436\/revisions\/65437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}