{"id":48911,"date":"2018-12-02T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T09:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=48911"},"modified":"2018-12-02T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T09:10:22","slug":"sri-lanka-political-crisis-likely-to-last-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sri-lanka-political-crisis-likely-to-last-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka : Political crisis likely to last longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sri Lanka, the political crisis is likely to last longer as the Supreme Court crucial hearing against the dissolution of Parliament will be held next week.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources in the new government confirmed that a decision to resolve the crisis will have to wait for Supreme Court decision even as another motion will be brought in Parliament on Wednesday for change of government.<\/p>\n<p>New Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has said there are no plans to back off from the government or resign and he will wait for the court decision.<\/p>\n<p>A seven-judge bench is expected to rule by next weekend on President proclamation to dissolve parliament and hold early elections.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another meeting of United National Front with President is likely to be held this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The UNF has officially informed President Maithripala Sirisena that the party has unanimously nominated leader Ranil Wickremesinghe for the position of Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>However, president has asserted several times that he will not appoint Mr. Wickremsinghe again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sri Lanka, the political crisis is likely to last longer as the Supreme Court crucial hearing against the dissolution of Parliament will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48913,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48911\/revisions\/48913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}