{"id":443,"date":"2026-04-27T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=443"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:25:22","slug":"sajith-premadasa-calls-for-policy-based-political-shift-on-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/27\/sajith-premadasa-calls-for-policy-based-political-shift-on-may-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith Premadasa Calls for Policy-Based Political Shift on May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has emphasized the need to protect workers\u2019 rights and move towards a policy-driven political approach, marking the occasion of International Workers\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a special May Day statement today (27), he stated that the Samagi Jana Balawegaya aims to take a significant step toward ensuring prosperity for all citizens while safeguarding the rights of the working population.<\/p>\n<p>Premadasa further noted that the country must move away from what he described as an outdated political culture and current political maneuvering, and instead adopt a <strong>middle-path approach<\/strong> focused on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social democracy<\/li>\n<li>A social market economy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He stressed that such a direction would help rebuild the nation on strong policy foundations.<\/p>\n<h3>Call for Unity<\/h3>\n<p>The Opposition Leader also extended an invitation to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Members and supporters of the United National Party<\/li>\n<li>Progressive citizens committed to national development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He urged them to join hands with his party for the country\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Premadasa called on the public to gather in large numbers on <strong>May 1<\/strong> at the <strong>P. D. Sirisena Grounds in Maligawatte, Colombo<\/strong>, to demonstrate unity and support for this initiative.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by reiterating that collective action and unity are essential to building a better future for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has emphasized the need to protect workers\u2019 rights and move towards a policy-driven political approach, marking the occasion of International Workers\u2019 Day. Issuing a special May Day statement today (27), he stated that the Samagi Jana Balawegaya aims to take a significant step toward ensuring prosperity for all citizens while safeguarding &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","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\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}