{"id":131257,"date":"2023-01-10T15:58:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131257"},"modified":"2023-01-10T15:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:58:21","slug":"unp-joins-hands-with-slpp-for-lg-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/10\/unp-joins-hands-with-slpp-for-lg-election\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP joins hands with SLPP for LG election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The United National Party (UNP) has decided to join hands with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) to contest the upcoming Local Government (LG) Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The general secretary of the party, Palitha Range Bandara stated this speaking to the media today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dcf\u0da8\u0dbd\u0dd3 \u0dc3\u0dc4 \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0dbd\u0dca\u0d9c\u0db8 \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1 \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0db8 \u0d91\u0dba\u0dd2 - \u0d85\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf \u0dc3\u0dc4 \u0db4\u0ddc\u0dc4\u0ddc\u0da7\u0dca\u0da7\u0dd4\u0dc0 \u0da1\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dba\u0da7 \u0db6\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda \u0db8\u0dd9\u0dc4\u0dd9\u0db8\u0dba\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HnuwePhmi7o?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>At a recent meeting with electoral organizers of both parties, the UNP and the SLPP have agreed to contest certain electoral areas under the \u2018elephant\u2019 symbol, some electoral areas under the \u2018lotus bud\u2019 symbol and the other electoral areas under a common symbol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a general consensus has been reached to contest the Colombo Municipal Council, Kandy Municipal Council and Puttalam Urban Council under the \u2018elephant\u2019 symbol, Range Bandara said further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The United National Party (UNP) has decided to join hands with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) to contest the upcoming Local Government (LG) Election. The general secretary of the party, Palitha Range Bandara stated this speaking to the media today. At a recent meeting with electoral organizers of both parties, the UNP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131257","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=131257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}