{"id":91906,"date":"2019-08-03T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T21:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91906"},"modified":"2019-08-03T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T21:55:16","slug":"upfa-will-support-presidential-candidate-jointly-named-by-sirisena-and-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/03\/upfa-will-support-presidential-candidate-jointly-named-by-sirisena-and-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPFA will support presidential candidate jointly named by Sirisena and Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Aruna Bogahawatte Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) will extend its support to a presidential candidate jointly nominated by President Maithripala Sirisena and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, General Secretary Mahinda Amaraweera says.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whatever obstacles we have to face, discussions between the SLFP and SLPP on the proposed formation of an alliance will continue, and a suitable presidential candidate the masses demand, will be nominated by the two leaders&#8221;, Amaraweera said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the approval of the SLFP Central Committee would be obtained regarding the presidential candidate named by the two leaders. &#8220;We will receive the support of everybody to push through the nomination&#8221;.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The broad objective of the proposed alliance with the SLPP was not only to nominate a presidential aspirant but also to contest every forthcoming election as an alliance, the General Secretary added.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aruna Bogahawatte Courtesy The Island The United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) will extend its support to a presidential candidate jointly nominated by President Maithripala Sirisena and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, General Secretary Mahinda Amaraweera says. &#8220;Whatever obstacles we have to face, discussions between the SLFP and SLPP on the proposed formation of an alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91906","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=91906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}