{"id":106588,"date":"2020-09-14T14:56:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106588"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:56:15","slug":"ruwan-wijewardene-elected-unp-deputy-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/14\/ruwan-wijewardene-elected-unp-deputy-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruwan Wijewardene elected UNP Deputy Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former MP Ruwan Wijewardene has been elected as the Deputy Leader of the United National Party (UNP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d91\u0da2\u0dcf\u0db4 \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dba\u0ddd\u0da2\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0db1\u0dcf\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dba\u0dcf \u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da2\u0dda\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dca\u0db0\u0db1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fr4btgIjuGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was reportedly elected to the position following a secret ballot held during the UNP\u2019s Working Committee meeting today (14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Minister and UNP Vice Leader Ravi Karunanayake had also contested for the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former State Minister Ruwan Wijewardene had obtained 28 votes while Karunanayake had received 10 votes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wijewardene had previously held the position of Deputy General Secretary in the UNP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The position of UNP Deputy Leader was previously held by incumbent Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, who was stripped of the post after he became the leader of the \u2018Samagi Jana Balawegaya\u2019 (SJB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former MP Ruwan Wijewardene has been elected as the Deputy Leader of the United National Party (UNP). He was reportedly elected to the position following a secret ballot held during the UNP\u2019s Working Committee meeting today (14). Former Minister and UNP Vice Leader Ravi Karunanayake had also contested for the position. Former State [&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-106588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106588","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=106588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}