{"id":92226,"date":"2019-08-14T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92226"},"modified":"2019-08-14T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T21:38:23","slug":"slfp-firmly-behind-gota-for-prez-susil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/14\/slfp-firmly-behind-gota-for-prez-susil\/","title":{"rendered":"SLFP firmly behind &#8216;Gota for Prez&#8217; &#8211; Susil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jayasuriya Udukumbura Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Parliamentarian Susil Premajayantha claimed that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has joined the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) in campaigning for former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in order to gain victory at the upcoming Presidential Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a Media briefing held today (14), he claimed that the SLFP has understood the policies put forward by the SLPP and has wisely chosen to accept the decision and support Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further said that MP Dayasiri Jayasekara is under a false impression that the Members of the SLFP have not positively accepted the Presidential candidate put forward by the SLPP while saying that Gotabaya Rajapaksa has received undeniable public acceptance which is evident through the public gatherings that took place to wish him following the announcement made by the SLPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ceylontoday.lk\/assets\/images\/news-s-icon.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Jayasuriya Udukumbura&nbsp;08:01 PM Aug 14 2019&nbsp;&nbsp;0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayasuriya Udukumbura Courtesy Ceylon Today Parliamentarian Susil Premajayantha claimed that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has joined the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) in campaigning for former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in order to gain victory at the upcoming Presidential Election. Addressing a Media briefing held today (14), he claimed that the SLFP has [&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-92226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92226","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=92226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}