{"id":1874,"date":"2026-05-27T05:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:57:52","slug":"itak-agrees-to-25-representation-for-women-and-youth-in-provincial-council-elections-ma-sumanthiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/27\/itak-agrees-to-25-representation-for-women-and-youth-in-provincial-council-elections-ma-sumanthiran\/","title":{"rendered":"ITAK Agrees to 25% Representation for Women and Youth in Provincial Council Elections \u2013 MA Sumanthiran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M. A. Sumanthiran, General Secretary of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi and former Member of Parliament, stated that written agreement has been given to allocate 25% representation for women and youth at the time of submitting nominations for Provincial Council elections.<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that this agreement was reached to facilitate the early conduct of Provincial Council elections under the previous electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>Sumanthiran also stated that the government could proceed with the private member\u2019s motion submitted by Shanakiyan Rasamanickam regarding the holding of Provincial Council elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M. A. Sumanthiran, General Secretary of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi and former Member of Parliament, stated that written agreement has been given to allocate 25% representation for women and youth at the time of submitting nominations for Provincial Council elections. He further noted that this agreement was reached to facilitate the early conduct of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","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\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}