{"id":7266,"date":"2019-09-29T10:20:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T10:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7266"},"modified":"2019-09-29T10:20:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T10:20:49","slug":"united-left-front-to-support-jvp-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/united-left-front-to-support-jvp-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"United Left Front to support JVP presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The United Left Front (ULF) led by parliamentarian Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne has decided to leave the United National Front (UNF) led by United National Party (UNP) and support the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the upcoming presidential election. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The central committee of the ULF, which was formed by sections of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, has taken the decision to leave the ruling alliance, the General Secretary of the ULF Lal Wijenayake said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Accordingly, the Central Committee has decided to support the JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the presidential election on November 16, he said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">UNF national list MP Jayampathi Wickramaratne said that he would ask the people to vote for Anura Dissanayake and cast a second preference. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">He also urged the people to cast their second preference for the candidate strongly against the SLPP candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Left Front (ULF) led by parliamentarian Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne has decided to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266","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=7266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}