{"id":121993,"date":"2022-01-10T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121993"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:28:24","slug":"maithripala-says-a-new-alliance-most-likely-as-old-ones-have-reached-expiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/10\/maithripala-says-a-new-alliance-most-likely-as-old-ones-have-reached-expiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Maithripala says a new alliance \u2018most likely\u2019 as old ones have reached \u2018expiry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Leader of the SLFP and former President Maithripala Sirisena said that they are against the postponing of elections and that they want elections to be held without delay.&nbsp;<\/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=\"\u0d85\u0db4\u0dd2 \u0d86\u0dab\u0dca\u0da9\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dc4\u0daf\u0db1\u0dc0\u0dcf - \u0db8\u0ddb\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/foZpyubRGn8?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>Responding to questions from reporters today regarding reports that a gazette is to be issued postponing provincial council elections by a year, he said: We are against the postponing of the election. What we want are elections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that within the next couple of months, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) will be shaped into the most prominent and strongest political party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sirisena added that they will present a comprehensive national programme to the country urging everyone to join with that national programme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that in the future they will form a government with whoever joins that movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked whether this means they will be forming a new political alliance, the former President said that most probably they would have to form a new alliance as the old ones have reached expiry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the SLFP and former President Maithripala Sirisena said that they are against the postponing of elections and that they want elections to be held without delay.&nbsp; Responding to questions from reporters today regarding reports that a gazette is to be issued postponing provincial council elections by a year, he said: We [&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-121993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121993","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=121993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}