{"id":133284,"date":"2014-11-21T03:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=133284"},"modified":"2014-11-27T13:07:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T07:37:30","slug":"prime-minister-dm-jayaratne-says-pope-will-meet-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/prime-minister-dm-jayaratne-says-pope-will-meet-a-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister DM Jayaratne Says Pope Will Meet A New President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Pope+Francis&amp;x=6&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pope<\/span><\/a> will meet a new President under a new government after the elections says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=D.M.+Jayaratne&amp;x=12&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Disanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratne<\/span><\/a>,the 20th\u00a0Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, and a veteran Sri Lankan politician. He also a founder member of the\u00a0Sri Lanka Freedom Party.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday signed the proclamation declaring his intention to hold a Presidential Election seeking another term. After a \u00a0few hours later a r<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">uling party Gampaha District parliamentarian <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Vasantha+Senanayake&amp;x=12&amp;y=7\">Vasantha Senanayake<\/a><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> joined the United National Party and said\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">he joined the UNP because of the issues of democracy and other issues under Rajapaksa regime and added that there will be more UPFA members in the UNP in future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8UrhkBeSO8?rel=0;showinfo\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":109606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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