{"id":136544,"date":"2015-01-09T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T06:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=136544"},"modified":"2015-01-13T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:40:02","slug":"ms-wins-with-a-majority-of-51-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ms-wins-with-a-majority-of-51-28\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Wins With A Majority Of 51.28%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya officially declared the common Opposition candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Maithripala+Sirisena&amp;x=7&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maithripala Sirisena<\/span><\/a> the victor of the polls with a majority of 51.28%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Maitre1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-133343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Maitre1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Maitre\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Maitre1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Maitre1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>During a media briefing held at the Elections Department that is ongoing, he thanked everyone who assisted in the holding of a peaceful polls process.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the EC also called upon the future leaders of Sri Lanka including the newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena to ensure the mechanisms already in place to ensure free and fair elections are further strengthened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":133343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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