{"id":154086,"date":"2026-01-11T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154086"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:42:51","slug":"joint-opposition-secures-landslide-victory-in-katugampola-co-operative-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/01\/11\/joint-opposition-secures-landslide-victory-in-katugampola-co-operative-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint opposition secures landslide victory in Katugampola Co-operative election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Joint Opposition has claimed a significant victory in the election held yesterday (10) to elect members for the General Assembly of the Katugampola Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society (MPCS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opposition bloc secured a commanding majority, effectively taking over the management of the society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to our correspondent, the Joint Opposition polled 113 votes to establish its dominance, while the National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) managed to secure only 06 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election covered 31 out of the 36 regional branches belonging to the society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities were forced to nullify the voting in 05 regional branches due to a lack of quorum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the General Assembly originally intended to elect 133 members, the final number of members elected yesterday stood at 119 due to the cancelled polls in those specific divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This victory ensures that the Joint Opposition will be responsible for the future administrative and operational decisions of the Katugampola Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Joint Opposition has claimed a significant victory in the election held yesterday (10) to elect members for the General Assembly of the Katugampola Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society (MPCS). The opposition bloc secured a commanding majority, effectively taking over the management of the society. According to our correspondent, the Joint Opposition polled 113 [&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-154086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154086","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=154086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154087,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154086\/revisions\/154087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}