{"id":100120,"date":"2020-03-19T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100120"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:57:24","slug":"parties-submit-national-list-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/19\/parties-submit-national-list-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Parties submit national list nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Several parties have submitted their nominations for the National List to the Elections Commission today (19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The national list of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) was handed over by the party Chairman Prof. G. L. Peiris and its General Secretary Attorney at Law Sagara Kariyawasam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list with 29 names consist of Chairman of SLPP Prof. G. L. Peiris, President\u2019s Counsel Ali Sabry, \u2018Yuthukama\u2019 Chairman Gevindu Kumaratunga, former SLFP General Secretary Prof. Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa, former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabral, former Cricket Captain Thilekaratne Dilshan, General Secretary of SLPP Attorney at Law Sagara Kariyawasam, Prof. Charitha Herath, Yadamini Gunawardena, Dr. Seetha Arambepola, Tiran Alas, Mohammed Muzammil, and Jayantha Ketagoda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the United National Party (UNP) and \u2018Samgai Jana Balawegaya\u2019 led by Sajith Premadasa submitted two separate national lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNP included names of John Amaratunga, Prof. Ashu Marasinghe, President\u2019s Counsel Thilak Marapana, Saman Ratnapriya, Rohitha Bogollagama in their list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Samagi Jana Balawegaya\u2019 had added Ranjith Madduma Bandara, Mayantha Dissanayake, Tissa Attanayake, Harin Fernando, Eran Wickremaratne, Hussain Bhaila, Earl Gunasekera, Asad Sally, Shiral Lakthilaka, Imtiaz Bakeer Marker to their list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former MP Dayasiri Jayasekara submitted the national list of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is to be noted that former Speaker of the Parliament Karu Jayasuriya and former MP Sagala Rathnayake had neither submitted nominations to contest the election nor were included in national lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the matter, Jayasuriya said that he continuously tried to reconcile the UNP and \u2018Samagi Jana Balawegaya\u2019 to no avail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, he has decided to neither contest the election nor enter the parliament through the national list, the former Speaker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Several parties have submitted their nominations for the National List to the Elections Commission today (19). The national list of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) was handed over by the party Chairman Prof. G. L. Peiris and its General Secretary Attorney at Law Sagara Kariyawasam. The list with 29 names consist of Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}