{"id":4095,"date":"2017-05-04T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T03:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2017-05-04T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T03:32:01","slug":"sri-lankan-mp-kumarasinghe-with-dual-citizenship-loses-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/archives\/4095","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan MP Kumarasinghe with dual citizenship loses seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Srilanka, May 4th, 2017: A Sri Lankan court Wednesday stripped an actress-turned-politician of her seat in parliament after it was revealed she had Swiss nationality in addition to being a local citizen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka-born Geetha Kumarasinghe, who built a following on the silver screen before winning a seat for President Maithripala Sirisena&#8217;s party in the 2015 general election, violated a new law by holding dual citizenship, the Court of Appeal held.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The court held that she had not provided any documents to support her claim that she had renounced her Swiss nationality,&#8221; a court official told AFP.<br \/>\nThe 61-year-old was also asked to pay back her salary as well as the cost of all other privileges she enjoyed as a lawmaker, including a luxury car.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wednesday&#8217;s ruling is the first judgement on the issue of a foreign national holding elected office in the island nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new government in 2015 amended the constitution to bar Sri Lankans with dual citizenship from contesting elections, a move that directly affected two brothers of former strongman president Mahinda Rajapakse who held US citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Srilanka, May 4th, 2017: A Sri Lankan court Wednesday stripped an actress-turned-politician of her seat in parliament after it was revealed she had Swiss nationality in addition to being a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/archives\/4095\" title=\"Sri Lankan MP Kumarasinghe with dual citizenship loses seat\">[\u0925\u092a \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930&#8230;..\/Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4097,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nepalmediaonline.com\/Nmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}