{"id":27771,"date":"2024-11-23T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T07:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=27771"},"modified":"2024-11-25T21:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:53:40","slug":"local-government-election-early-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=27771","title":{"rendered":"Local Government Election early next year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment, and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath says the local government elections are planned for early next year. He was speaking to the media today (23) in Kandy.<br \/>The minister said that according to the decision given by the Supreme Court, the local government elections will be held as soon as possible.<br \/>Also, the minister said that some of the candidates in the nominations related to the local government elections given two years ago have died and some people have left the country.<br \/>The minister said that his government would discuss the matter with other parties and decide whether to call for new nominations.<\/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-27771' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=27771&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-27771' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-27771' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-27771' 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-27771'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-27771' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-27771 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment, and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath says the local government elections are planned for early next year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27772,"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-27771","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\/27771","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=27771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27773,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions\/27773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}