{"id":7582,"date":"2019-11-21T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7582"},"modified":"2019-11-21T05:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:22:11","slug":"unp-leader-plans-to-work-on-rebuilding-partys-sinhala-buddhist-voter-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/unp-leader-plans-to-work-on-rebuilding-partys-sinhala-buddhist-voter-base\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP leader plans to work on rebuilding party&#8217;s Sinhala Buddhist voter base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The leader of the United National Party, Prime Minister Rani Wickremesinghe has stated that the party has lost the confidence of the Sinhala Buddhist voters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">During a meeting with a group of United National Party (UNP) parliamentarians today, the party leader has note that the &#8220;the results of the presidential election show that the Buddhist community has lost confidence in the party.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The Prime Minister has pointed out that the main challenge is to build a young leadership team that can protect the party&#8217;s Sinhala Buddhist base. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The Prime Minister has said that he will urge the party&#8217;s youth leaders to take action next week to work towards building a program to regain the lost voter confidence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The UNP leader has said that the reasons for the party&#8217;s defeat in the presidential election should be analyzed and both long term and short term plans have to be prepared to win the next elections. A broad reorganization of the party is needed for that, Wickremesinghe has sai<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the United National Party, Prime Minister Rani Wickremesinghe has stated that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7583,"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-7582","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\/7582","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=7582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}