{"id":8350,"date":"2020-03-08T06:14:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T06:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2020-03-08T06:14:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T06:14:04","slug":"unp-informs-ec-that-they-will-be-contesting-the-general-elections-as-a-recognized-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/unp-informs-ec-that-they-will-be-contesting-the-general-elections-as-a-recognized-party\/","title":{"rendered":"UNP informs EC that they will be contesting the General Elections as a recognized party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, the General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP) has officially informed the Election Commission that they will contest the upcoming general elections as a party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe United National Party (UNP) as a recognized political party will contest in the 22 districts at the Parliamentary elections scheduled to be held on 25 April 2020 as declared by the Extraordinary Gazette,\u201d Kariyawasam has written in a letter to the Chairman of the Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sajith Premadasa faction meanwhile says they will be contesting under Samagi Jana Balawegaya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, the General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP) has officially&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8351,"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-8350","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\/8350","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=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}