{"id":131284,"date":"2023-01-11T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131284"},"modified":"2023-01-11T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:42:15","slug":"new-coalition-freedom-peoples-alliance-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/01\/11\/new-coalition-freedom-peoples-alliance-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"New coalition \u201c\u2018Freedom People\u2019s Alliance\u201d\u2018 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya\u2019 (Freedom People\u2019s Alliance), a new coalition with the combined participation of 10 different political parties, was launched a short while ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dbd\u0dca - \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dda\u0db1 \u0d85\u0daf \u0d91\u0d9a\u0db8 \u0dc0\u0dda\u0daf\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dda  \u0da2\u0dd0\u0d9a\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dc4\u0db4\u0dd4 \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dba\u0daf\u0dca\u0daf\u0dd3 \u0db8\u0ddb\u0dad\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3\u0da7 \u0dc4\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dcf\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZpXBT48gXcA?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>The novel party was ceremonially launched today (11 Jan.), at the Headquarters of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in Colombo 10.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, 10 political parties, including the SLFP, the \u2018Uttara Lanka Sabhagaya\u2019 (Supreme Lanka Coalition) and the Freedom People\u2019s Congress, collated to form the \u2018Freedom People\u2019s Alliance\u2019, with the aim of jointly contesting for the upcoming Local Government elections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 35 MPs who entered Parliament under the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), including former President Maithripala Sirisena, Wimal Weerawasna, Dullas Alahapperuma and Anura Priyadarshana Yapa are already part of the newly-formed alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The \u2018Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya\u2019 (Freedom People\u2019s Alliance), a new coalition with the combined participation of 10 different political parties, was launched a short while ago.&nbsp; The novel party was ceremonially launched today (11 Jan.), at the Headquarters of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in Colombo 10.&nbsp; Accordingly, 10 political parties, including the [&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-131284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131284","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=131284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}