{"id":1089,"date":"2026-05-11T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:34:14","slug":"opposition-parties-urge-government-to-hold-provincial-council-elections-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/11\/opposition-parties-urge-government-to-hold-provincial-council-elections-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Parties Urge Government to Hold Provincial Council Elections Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of several opposition parties have urged the government to hold the Provincial Council elections without further delay.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a media briefing held at the Opposition Leader\u2019s Office, Ranjith Madduma Bandara, General Secretary of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, stated that the Provincial Council system, which was established after long political struggles, should be reactivated and elections should be conducted again.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that Provincial Council elections have not been held since 2017 and said that previous governments must also take responsibility for the delay.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, Parliamentary Group Leader of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, said that he has submitted a private member\u2019s proposal aimed at simplifying the current electoral system and holding Provincial Council elections in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Nizam Kariapper, Secretary of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, stated that elections could still be conducted by temporarily continuing the current Provincial Council law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of several opposition parties have urged the government to hold the Provincial Council elections without further delay. Speaking at a media briefing held at the Opposition Leader\u2019s Office, Ranjith Madduma Bandara, General Secretary of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, stated that the Provincial Council system, which was established after long political struggles, should be reactivated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}