{"id":153799,"date":"2025-12-22T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153799"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:24:50","slug":"npps-budget-defeated-at-colombo-municipal-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/22\/npps-budget-defeated-at-colombo-municipal-council\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP\u2019s budget defeated at Colombo Municipal Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The inaugural 2026 budget proposal of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), which is under the control of the ruling National People\u2019s Power (NPP), has been defeated by a majority of three votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The budget received 57 votes in favour, while 60 councilors voted against it, Ada Derana reporter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The votes of two members of \u2018Sarvajana Balaya\u2019 had proved decisive in the outcome of the vote, resulting in the National People\u2019s Power (NPP) budget proposal being defeated by a majority of three votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the last Local Government Elections, the NPP secured power in the CMC and its mayoral candidate Vraie Cally Balthazar was elected as the Mayor of Colombo by securing 61 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The inaugural 2026 budget proposal of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), which is under the control of the ruling National People\u2019s Power (NPP), has been defeated by a majority of three votes. The budget received 57 votes in favour, while 60 councilors voted against it, Ada Derana reporter said. The votes of two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153799","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=153799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153800,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153799\/revisions\/153800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}