{"id":91909,"date":"2019-08-03T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91909"},"modified":"2019-08-03T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T22:00:46","slug":"ranil-gota-tipped-to-run-in-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/03\/ranil-gota-tipped-to-run-in-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil-Gota tipped to run in Presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/2084921696SI-P01-04-08-(P)-DMP.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa are tipped to be nominated presidential aspirants of the proposed National Democratic Front (NDF) and the United National Joint Alliance (UNJA), respectively, political sources said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UNP and the SLFP\/SLPP are now working on forming separate alliances to draw on the support of other political parties to make a stronger impact on the electorate as the fray to win this year\u2019s presidential stakes gather momentum, the sources said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to contest under the \u2018elephant\u2019 symbol, while Gotabaya Rajapaksa will throw his hat into the ring under the \u2018Flower Bud\u2019 (Pohottuwa) symbol, according to the sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa are tipped to be nominated presidential aspirants of the proposed National Democratic Front (NDF) and the United National Joint Alliance (UNJA), respectively, political sources said. The UNP and the SLFP\/SLPP are now working on forming separate alliances to draw on the support [&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-91909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91909","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=91909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}