{"id":95689,"date":"2019-11-27T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95689"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T19:59:08","slug":"speaker-recognizes-ranil-as-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/27\/speaker-recognizes-ranil-as-opposition-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker recognizes Ranil as Opposition Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Courtesy Ada Derana<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya says that he has \nrecognized UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Leader of the \nOpposition, upholding Parliamentary traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a twitter message, he said that recognition of the Leader of the \nUNFGG as the Leader of the Opposition was done upholding established \nParliamentary traditions that should not be violated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I empathize with the challengers too, it is best that a party\u2019s internal disputes are settled from within,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam had \nrequested the Speaker to appoint former Prime Minister Ranil \nWickremesinghe as the new Opposition Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it was later reported that a group of UNP parliamentarians \nhad signed a letter requesting the Speaker to appoint UNP deputy leader \nSajith Premadasa as the Opposition Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) is the \npolitical alliance formed by the United National Party (UNP) ahead of \nthe 2015 general election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana The Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya says that he has recognized UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Leader of the Opposition, upholding Parliamentary traditions. In a twitter message, he said that recognition of the Leader of the UNFGG as the Leader of the Opposition was done upholding established Parliamentary traditions that should [&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-95689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95689","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=95689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}