{"id":144844,"date":"2024-10-10T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144844"},"modified":"2024-10-10T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T22:14:41","slug":"champikas-urf-pulls-out-of-election-campaign-accuse-sjb-of-violating-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/10\/champikas-urf-pulls-out-of-election-campaign-accuse-sjb-of-violating-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Champika\u2019s URF pulls out of election campaign, accuse SJB of violating deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka says that his party &#8211; the United Republic Front (URF) will not contest the 2024 Parliamentary Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He communicated this during a media briefing held today (10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We decided to withdraw from this election campaign.We were hoping to contest the election representing Samagi Jana Sandhanaya from 11 districts. During the nomination process, we realized that there has been a violation of the agreement that we cannot justify, so that we decided to withdraw\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Former Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka says that his party &#8211; the United Republic Front (URF) will not contest the 2024 Parliamentary Election. He communicated this during a media briefing held today (10). We decided to withdraw from this election campaign.We were hoping to contest the election representing Samagi Jana Sandhanaya from [&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-144844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144844","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=144844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}