{"id":151724,"date":"2025-08-31T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151724"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:12:47","slug":"ex-president-ranil-to-invite-all-opposition-leaders-to-unps-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/31\/ex-president-ranil-to-invite-all-opposition-leaders-to-unps-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-President Ranil to invite all opposition leaders to UNP\u2019s convention"},"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 invite all opposition political party leaders to its annual convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A preparatory discussion for the convention, which is scheduled to be held on September 6, was held this morning (31).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A proposal in this regard has been made and is scheduled to be submitted to the UNP\u2019s Working Committee meeting on September 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party has also decided to lift the ban on former members whose memberships were suspended, considering them as having left the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This proposal will also be presented at the upcoming Working Committee meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the coming days, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to personally invite opposition party leaders to attend the convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNP has also decided to hold the convention at a neutral location, rather than at Sirikotha, the party\u2019s headquarters, so that opposition representatives can also participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, according to political analysts, this year\u2019s convention is expected to be notably different due to these decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The United National Party (UNP) has decided to invite all opposition political party leaders to its annual convention. A preparatory discussion for the convention, which is scheduled to be held on September 6, was held this morning (31). A proposal in this regard has been made and is scheduled to be submitted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151724","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=151724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}