{"id":93655,"date":"2019-10-08T16:54:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93655"},"modified":"2019-10-08T16:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:54:32","slug":"well-support-gotabaya-not-slpp-dayasiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/08\/well-support-gotabaya-not-slpp-dayasiri\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll support Gotabaya, not SLPP &#8211; Dayasiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The General Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Dayasiri Jayasekara says the party will render its support for presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa, not Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated this speaking to the media today (08) following the party\u2019s discussions chaired by President Maithripala Sirisena concerning the upcoming Presidential Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/k3wPkj-mRTo\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussions were held at the Presidential Secretariat this morning to talk over which candidate the SLFP would be supporting in the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another discussion took place this evening at the official residence of the General Secretary of the United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the discussion, he said the President would be announcing the SLFP\u2019s final decision tomorrow (09).<strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong>&nbsp;All the comments will be moderated by the AD editorial. Abstain from posting comments that are obscene, defamatory or slanderous. Please avoid outside hyperlinks inside the comment and avoid typing all capitalized comments. Help us delete comments that do not follow these guidelines by flagging them(mouse over a comment and click the flag icon on the right side). Do use these forums to voice your opinions and create healthy discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The General Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Dayasiri Jayasekara says the party will render its support for presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa, not Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. He stated this speaking to the media today (08) following the party\u2019s discussions chaired by President Maithripala Sirisena concerning the upcoming Presidential Election. The discussions [&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-93655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93655","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=93655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}