{"id":153753,"date":"2025-12-19T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153753"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:42:14","slug":"ranil-wickremesinghe-discusses-leadership-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/19\/ranil-wickremesinghe-discusses-leadership-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickremesinghe discusses leadership exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The leader of the United National Party, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has chaired a high-level meeting at his Flower Road office to discuss his impending departure from the party leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives from several political parties gathered in Colombo yesterday (18) for the special session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary focus of the deliberations was Wickremesinghe\u2019s decision to step down as the head of the United National Party (UNP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting served as a platform to navigate the transition of power and address the future trajectory of the party following his exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The leader of the United National Party, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has chaired a high-level meeting at his Flower Road office to discuss his impending departure from the party leadership. Representatives from several political parties gathered in Colombo yesterday (18) for the special session. The primary focus of the deliberations was Wickremesinghe\u2019s decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-ranil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153753","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=153753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153754,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153753\/revisions\/153754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}