{
  "id": 620628,
  "title": "President-BASL talks on 22A: Neither side likely to budge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/president-basl-talks-on-22a-neither-side-likely-to-budge",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T00:05:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Island Sri Lanka",
    "slug": "the-island-sri-lanka",
    "url": "http://island.lk/president-basl-talks-on-22a-neither-side-likely-to-budge/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Having gazetted the 22 Amendment to the Constitution meant to extend the retirement ages of superior court judges, the NPP government was very much unlikely to change its stand though President Anura Kumara Dissanayake would meet a high level delegation of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) today (12) sources familiar with the issue […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}