{"id":7660,"date":"2019-12-03T06:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2019-12-03T06:37:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:37:49","slug":"unp-ready-to-discuss-changes-to-19th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/unp-ready-to-discuss-changes-to-19th-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP ready to discuss changes to 19th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The United National Party (UNP) says it is prepared to discuss amendments to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution with the Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">UNP senior Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella told reporters today that the 19th Amendment had the support of Parliament when it was tabled by the former Government and eventually passed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that if the current Government feels there are some clauses which needs to be amended the UNP is willing to discuss the amendments with the Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, he said it was unlikely that the UNP will support fully abolishing the 19th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United National Party (UNP) says it is prepared to discuss amendments to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7661,"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-7660","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\/7660","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=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}