{"id":22102,"date":"2023-10-22T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T05:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=22102"},"modified":"2023-10-24T18:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:08:51","slug":"presidential-election-has-to-be-held-in-2024-ranil-wickramasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=22102","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election has to be held in 2024 &#8211; Ranil Wickramasinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ranil Wickramasinghe says that according to the constitution, the presidential election has to be held in 2024. After that, the parliamentary and provincial council elections could be held.<br \/>President Ranil Wickremesinghe said this while addressing the UNP convention held yesterday (21st) at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo.<br \/>The National People&#8217;s Power recently stated that they would defeat a referendum if it is held without holding the presidential or a general election.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-22102' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=22102&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-22102' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-22102' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-22102' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-22102'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-22102' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-22102 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ranil Wickramasinghe says that according to the constitution, the presidential election has to be held in 2024. After that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22104,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions\/22104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}