{"id":47327,"date":"2015-08-25T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47327"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:12:24","slug":"president-has-no-ethical-right-to-select-national-list-mps-says-gammanpila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/25\/president-has-no-ethical-right-to-select-national-list-mps-says-gammanpila\/","title":{"rendered":"President has no ethical right to select National List MPs, says Gammanpila"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>The President has no ethical right to select Parliamentarians through the National List, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Leader Udaya Gammanpila says.<\/p>\n<p>The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (25).<\/p>\n<p>Gammanpila also severely criticised the manner in which the United People\u2019s Freedom Party\u2019s (UPFA) national list MPs were selected.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a secret that the UPFA supporters are disappointed about the National List,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gammanpila also vowed not to contest under the UPFA ticket with the present leadership at a forthcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>He also charged that the new government is attempting to bring an international investigation on the alleged human rights violations in the guise of a domestic mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President has no ethical right to select National List MPs, says Gammanpila\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnRqY1QihOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana The President has no ethical right to select Parliamentarians through the National List, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Leader Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (25). Gammanpila also severely criticised the manner in which the United People\u2019s Freedom Party\u2019s (UPFA) national list MPs were selected. It [&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-47327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47327","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=47327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}