{"id":66339,"date":"2019-11-17T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66339"},"modified":"2019-11-17T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:54:05","slug":"sri-lanka-podujana-party-claims-victory-in-the-elections-as-presidential-candidate-gotabaya-rajapaksa-sweeps-the-sinhala-dominant-provinces-with-huge-majorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66339","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Podujana Party Claims Victory in the  Elections as  Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa  Sweeps the  Sinhala Dominant Provinces With Huge Majorities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sri Lanka Podujana Party has claimed victory in 2019 presidential polls with its candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa getting large majorities in the South.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By late morning Sunday Rajapaksa had polled 48 percent of the vote and Sajith Premadasa 45 percent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect to win comfortably on the first count,\u201d ex-Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal, who is part of Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s economic team said.<\/p>\n<p>Sajith Premadasa polled large majorities in the North of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa ran a campaign based on national security.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton66339\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D66339&amp;text=Sri%20Lanka%20Podujana%20Party%20Claims%20Victory%20in%20the%20%20Elections%20as%20%20Presidential%20Candidate%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20...%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 Party has claimed victory in 2019 presidential polls with its candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa getting large majorities in the South. By late morning Sunday Rajapaksa had polled 48 percent of the vote and Sajith Premadasa 45 percent.<\/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\/66339"}],"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=66339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66340,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66339\/revisions\/66340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}