{"id":139013,"date":"2023-12-15T15:31:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139013"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:31:40","slug":"slpp-re-elects-mahinda-rajapaksa-as-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/15\/slpp-re-elects-mahinda-rajapaksa-as-party-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"SLPP re-elects Mahinda Rajapaksa as party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been re-elected as the leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Gamini Lokuge proposed the former president\u2019s name while MP Johnston Fernando seconded it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLPP\u2019s 2nd National Convention got underway at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium this afternoon (Dec.15), under the aegis of Mahinda Rajapaksa and the party\u2019s national organizer and founder Basil Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been re-elected as the leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. MP Gamini Lokuge proposed the former president\u2019s name while MP Johnston Fernando seconded it. SLPP\u2019s 2nd National Convention got underway at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium this afternoon (Dec.15), under the aegis of Mahinda Rajapaksa and the party\u2019s national [&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-139013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139013","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=139013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}