{"id":356,"date":"2016-11-28T04:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T04:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=356"},"modified":"2016-11-28T04:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T04:50:37","slug":"slfp-says-no-to-federal-solution-through-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/slfp-says-no-to-federal-solution-through-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"SLFP says no to federal solution through new constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has rejected calls for a federal solution through the proposed new Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>SLFP member and Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva said the SLFP has made clear it wants a solution within a united Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>He said the SLFP cannot agree to a merged North and East or a federal system and if any attempt is made to push for such a system the party will object.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said that the SLFP wants all the communities in the country to live in peace with each other.<\/p>\n<p>He said the SLFP will discuss with other political parties a new Constitution for Sri Lanka which ensures the minorities are not felt left out.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said the process to draft a new Constitution required the two main political parties in the country to work together and so the SLFP is working with the United National Party (UNP).<\/p>\n<p>However he said at the next election the SLFP will contest separately and not with the UNP as it did at the last Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has rejected calls for a federal solution through&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}