{"id":7962,"date":"2020-01-17T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2020-01-17T05:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:00:25","slug":"after-tense-meeting-unp-fails-to-agree-on-party-leader-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/after-tense-meeting-unp-fails-to-agree-on-party-leader-post\/","title":{"rendered":"After tense meeting UNP fails to agree on party leader post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A crucial United National Party (UNP) meeting at the party headquarters ended following a heated exchange of words between rival camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The meeting was held to decide on the UNP leader post with Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa seeking to replace current leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However Wickremesinghe\u2019s camp and Premadasa\u2019s camp failed to reach a consensus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Wickremesinghe refused to step down and instead proposed the formation of a leadership council which will include himself, Premadasa and Speaker Karu Jayasuriya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, Premadasa\u2019s team refused to agree and former Minister Harin Fernando threatened to resign from the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A vote was later called for by Premadasa\u2019s team but Wickremesinghe abruptly ended the meeting and walked out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Premadasa\u2019s camp however remained and an unofficial vote was taken in which 52 of those present voted for Premadasa and no one against.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam later announced that a final decision on the party leadership issue will be reached on 24 January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crucial United National Party (UNP) meeting at the party headquarters ended following a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7963,"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-7962","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\/7962","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=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}