{"id":21451,"date":"2020-08-07T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/07\/sri-lankas-rajapaksa-brothers-strengthen-grip-in-landslide-election-win"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T02:07:22","slug":"sri-lankas-rajapaksa-brothers-strengthen-grip-in-landslide-election-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21451","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s Rajapaksa brothers strengthen grip in landslide election win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM and president\u2019s party wins \u2018super majority\u2019 that will allow them to carry out constitutional changes<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s ruling Rajapaksa brothers have secured a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections, giving them powers to change the constitution and unravel democratic safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>Final results on Friday showed that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) won 145 seats and can also count on the support of at least five allies in the 225-member legislature.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/07\/sri-lankas-rajapaksa-brothers-strengthen-grip-in-landslide-election-win\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM and president\u2019s party wins \u2018super majority\u2019 that will allow them to carry out constitutional changesSri Lanka\u2019s ruling Rajapaksa brothers have secured a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections, giving them powers to change the constitution an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21452,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21451\/revisions\/21452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}