{"id":843,"date":"2026-05-05T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=843"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:56:14","slug":"special-parliamentary-committee-appointed-to-review-electoral-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/05\/special-parliamentary-committee-appointed-to-review-electoral-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Parliamentary Committee Appointed to Review Electoral Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-member special parliamentary committee has been appointed to review electoral systems in Sri Lanka, excluding the Provincial Council election system, with the aim of proposing necessary reforms and recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is chaired by Member of Parliament A. H. Aberathna.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the committee has been tasked with examining the challenges, shortcomings, and practical issues associated with the country\u2019s existing electoral frameworks. The objective is to identify ways to make election processes more efficient, transparent, and fair.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is expected to consult relevant stakeholders and gather their views before preparing a comprehensive report. This report will include recommendations on potential reforms and will be submitted to Parliament for further consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-member special parliamentary committee has been appointed to review electoral systems in Sri Lanka, excluding the Provincial Council election system, with the aim of proposing necessary reforms and recommendations. The committee is chaired by Member of Parliament A. H. Aberathna. According to officials, the committee has been tasked with examining the challenges, shortcomings, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}