{"id":50147,"date":"2018-12-16T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T08:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=50147"},"modified":"2018-12-16T08:54:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T08:54:59","slug":"ranil-wickremsinghe-takes-oath-as-prime-minister-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ranil-wickremsinghe-takes-oath-as-prime-minister-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickremsinghe takes oath as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremsinghe was sworn in as Prime Minister today morning by President Maithripala Sirisena thus bringing an end to weeks-long political crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremsinghe was removed as Prime Minister on October 26 and replaced by Mahinda Rajapaksa who resigned on Saturday after failing to garner majority in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth time Wickremsinghe has been sworn in as Prime minister which is a record in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet of ministers is expected to be sworn in tomorrow and a vote of account will be presented next week to meet expenditure for first two months of New Year.<\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena had been critical of Wickremsinghe policies and had asserted that he will never reappoint him.<\/p>\n<p>He prorogued paraliament and later dissolved it when Rajapaksa failed to muster the support of a majority in the House.<\/p>\n<p>But the Supreme Court decision against his order of parliament dissolution, forced his hands.<\/p>\n<p>The culmination of weeks long crisis has come as a major political victory for Wickremsinghe who emerged winner among the three key players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremsinghe was sworn in as Prime Minister today morning by President Maithripala Sirisena thus bringing an end to weeks-long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50147","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\/50147","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=50147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50149,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50147\/revisions\/50149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}