{"id":47201,"date":"2015-08-21T22:18:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T04:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47201"},"modified":"2015-08-21T08:53:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:53:52","slug":"upfa-names-national-list-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/21\/upfa-names-national-list-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"UPFA names National List MPs &#038; Welgama, Chandrasena, Pavithra out of UPFA EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hot News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>The Elections Department sources said the United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) national list was signed and sent by \u00a0Susil Premjayanth, the secretary of United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).<\/p>\n<p>He has approved the list with his signature and authenticated with his official seal as the Secretary General of the United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>This list has been accepted by the Elections Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Former Ministers Kumara Welgama,\u00a0Pavithra Wanniarachchi and S.M. Chandrasena have been removed from the United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Executive Council (EC). They have been informed about being removed from the EC through a letter signed by the SLFP and the UPFA acting general secretaries.<\/p>\n<p>The United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) National List \u00a0named the 12 MPs who would enter the next Parliament from the party.<\/p>\n<p>The following\u00a0are\u00a0the UPFA National List MPs that\u00a0includes \u00a07 UPFA candidates who contested the recent General Election but lost and were not named in the party\u2019s National List announced before polls.:<\/p>\n<p>1. Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena<br \/>\n2. Thilanga Sumathipala<br \/>\n3. Sarath Amunugama<br \/>\n4. Dilan Perera<br \/>\n5. Vijith Vijayamuni Soysa<br \/>\n6. S.B. Dissanayake<br \/>\n7. Mahinda Samarasinghe<br \/>\n8. Malith Jayatilake<br \/>\n9. M.L.A.M. Hisbullah<br \/>\n10. Angajan Ramanathan<br \/>\n11. A.H.M. Fowzie<br \/>\n12. Faizer Mustapha<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the United National Party (UNP) also named the MPs who will enter Parliament through its National List to fill the 13 bonus seats won by the party at the recent general election. As promised earlier, the United National Party\u00a0 leadership has not accommodated any defeated candidates in the national list.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot News The Elections Department sources said the United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) national list was signed and sent by \u00a0Susil Premjayanth, the secretary of United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). He has approved the list with his signature and authenticated with his official seal as the Secretary General of the United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47201","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=47201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}