{"id":66341,"date":"2019-11-17T01:04:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66341"},"modified":"2019-11-17T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T06:04:11","slug":"ndf-presidential-candidate-sajith-premadasa-concedes-victory-to-slpps-gotabaya-rajapaksa-even-before-final-results-are-announced-and-congratulates-gota-on-being-elected-seventh-president-of-sri-lan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66341","title":{"rendered":"NDF Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa  Concedes Victory to SLPP&#8217;s Gotabaya Rajapaksa Even Before Final Results are Announced and Congratulates Gota on Being Elected Seventh President of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Sri Lanka\u2019s ruling party candidate Sajith Premadasa Sunday conceded the presidential poll on Sunday and congratulated his main rival, former wartime defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my privilege to honour the decision of the people and congratulate Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa on his election as the seventh President of Sri Lanka,\u201d Premadasa said.<\/p>\n<p>His statement came as a spokesman for Rajapaksa claimed that the 70-year-old retired lieutenant colonel had won Saturday\u2019s vote, before the final results were formally announced.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton66341\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D66341&amp;text=NDF%20Presidential%20Candidate%20Sajith%20Premadasa%20%20Concedes%20Victory%20to%20SLPP%26%238217%3Bs%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20Even%20Before...%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\u2019s ruling party candidate Sajith Premadasa Sunday conceded the presidential poll on Sunday and congratulated his main rival, former wartime defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/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\/66341"}],"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=66341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66342,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66341\/revisions\/66342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}