{"id":97104,"date":"2019-12-31T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T22:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97104"},"modified":"2019-12-31T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T22:02:27","slug":"itll-take-longer-for-unp-to-select-a-good-leader-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/31\/itll-take-longer-for-unp-to-select-a-good-leader-johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019ll take longer for UNP to select a good leader &#8211; Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In the recent history of the United National Party (UNP), it has never had a politician who is as unperceptive as Sajith Premadasa, says Minister Johnston Fernando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to media at Kurunegala, he said the UNP will suffer a massive defeat in the upcoming general election regardless of whoever becomes its leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Minister Fernando, the defeated presidential candidate must not be demanding the UNP\u2019s leadership at a time like this and should let Ranil Wickremesinghe continue to hold the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will take longer for the UNP to select a good leader, the Minister added.<\/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\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d91.\u0da2\u0dcf.\u0db4.\u0dba. \u0da7 \u0dc3\u0dd1\u0dc4\u0dd9\u0db1 \u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dbd\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dba\u0dba\u0dd2 \u0dc4\u0ddc\u0db3 \u0db1\u0dcf\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dba\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dad\u0ddd\u0dbb\u0d9c\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1... \u0da2\u0ddc\u0db1\u0dca\u0dc3\u0dca\u0da7\u0db1\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aQUYH-KR8FU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana In the recent history of the United National Party (UNP), it has never had a politician who is as unperceptive as Sajith Premadasa, says Minister Johnston Fernando. Speaking to media at Kurunegala, he said the UNP will suffer a massive defeat in the upcoming general election regardless of whoever becomes its leader. [&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-97104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97104","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=97104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}