{"id":73671,"date":"2021-07-19T00:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T05:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73671"},"modified":"2021-07-19T02:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:46:43","slug":"president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-tells-media-instiution-owners-that-he-will-be-contesting-presidential-elections-again-to-seek-a-second-term-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=73671","title":{"rendered":"President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Tells Media Instiution Owners That He Will be Contesting  Presidential Elections Again to Seek a Second Term of Office."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Azzam Ameen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has today (19) declared that he would contest for a second term in office.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The President has made this observation during a meeting held today with owners of media institutions.<\/p>\n<p>This observation comes at a time when there\u2019s much speculation in the local political arena on the governing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna\u2019s (SLPP\u2019s) next presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Morning<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton73671\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D73671&amp;text=President%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20Tells%20Media%20Instiution%20Owners%20That%20He%20Will%20be%20Contesting%20%20Presidential%20Elections...%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 Azzam Ameen President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has today (19) declared that he would contest for a second term in office.<\/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\/73671"}],"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=73671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73672,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671\/revisions\/73672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}