{"id":21708,"date":"2010-09-09T01:54:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/afp_sri_lanka_premier_wins_constitution_vote\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T01:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:54:58","slug":"afp_sri_lanka_premier_wins_constitution_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21708","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) Sri Lanka Premier wins constitution vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s parliament on Wednesday passed constitutional reforms enabling President Mahinda Rajapakse to seek a third term, in changes critics say point to the country&#8217;s slide into autocracy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was also condemned by lawyers, rights groups and some religious groups, who have criticised the lack of public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Sri Lankan Anglican church, Bishop Duleep de Chickera, said the move &#8220;will inevitably lead to a further, dangerous politicisation of our national institutions and a speedier, destructive erosion of our already fragile democratic culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/srilanka-premier-wins-constitution-vote-20100909-151l2.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s parliament on Wednesday passed constitutional reforms enabling President Mahinda Rajapakse to seek a third term, in changes critics say point to the country&#8217;s slide into autocracy&#8230;. The bill was also condemned by lawyers, rights groups and some religious<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21708\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,114,151,108,487],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}