{"id":1701,"date":"2026-05-23T19:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:37:40","slug":"opposition-leader-urges-president-to-convene-all-party-conference-on-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/23\/opposition-leader-urges-president-to-convene-all-party-conference-on-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Urges President to Convene All-Party Conference on Economic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has urged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to convene an all-party conference to discuss the country\u2019s current economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A telephone conversation between the Opposition Leader and the President reportedly took place on Friday (22).<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, a special meeting involving opposition party leaders was held on Thursday night at the Office of the Opposition Leader.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, it was decided that an all-party conference should be convened immediately to discuss the prevailing economic challenges facing the country. It was also agreed that the proposal should be formally conveyed to the President by the Opposition Leader.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa contacted President Anura Kumara Dissanayake by telephone on Friday and presented the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the President reportedly informed the Opposition Leader that he was currently staying in Batticaloa and would provide a final response regarding the proposal after returning to Colombo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has urged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to convene an all-party conference to discuss the country\u2019s current economic crisis. A telephone conversation between the Opposition Leader and the President reportedly took place on Friday (22). Prior to this, a special meeting involving opposition party leaders was held on Thursday night at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","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\/1701","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=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}