{"id":77920,"date":"2018-05-31T13:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77920"},"modified":"2018-05-31T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:26:43","slug":"joint-opposition-decides-to-oppose-20th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/05\/31\/joint-opposition-decides-to-oppose-20th-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Opposition decides to oppose 20th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/3\/yusuf-ariff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yusuf Ariff\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Joint Opposition (JO) decided to oppose the 20th Amendment to the Constitution which has been proposed by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), MP Udaya Gammanpila said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>The decision was taken during the JO party leaders\u2019 meeting held this evening under the leadership of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the latter\u2019s official residence in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joint Opposition decides to oppose 20th Amendment\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gz7LkT_0oGk?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<p>Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila revealed the decision speaking to reporters after the meeting ended today (30).<\/p>\n<p>The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was handed over to the Secretary General of Parliament as a private member\u2019s bill by JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on May 25.<\/p>\n<p>Among other proposals the 20th amendment seeks to abolish the Executive Presidency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Yusuf Ariff\u00a0\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana The Joint Opposition (JO) decided to oppose the 20th Amendment to the Constitution which has been proposed by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), MP Udaya Gammanpila said. The decision was taken during the JO party leaders\u2019 meeting held this evening under the leadership of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the latter\u2019s official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920","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=77920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}