{"id":307100,"date":"2018-12-16T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307100"},"modified":"2018-12-16T19:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T19:15:01","slug":"ranil-wickremesinghe-sworn-in-as-prime-minister-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ranil-wickremesinghe-sworn-in-as-prime-minister-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/ranil-wickremesinghe-sworn-in-as-prime-minister-of-sri-lanka\/vikramasinghe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307101\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307101 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vikramasinghe-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vikramasinghe-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vikramasinghe-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vikramasinghe-550x420.jpg 550w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vikramasinghe.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a>Sri Lankan\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Ranil Wickremesinghe who was once sacked from the post of prime minister in October,\u00a0was sworn in\u00a0again on Sunday by\u00a0President\u00a0Maithripala Sirisena, a move that ended a nearly two-month political impasse that erupted after his surprising dismissal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wickremesinghe, who is also the\u00a0leader\u00a0of the ruling United National Party (UNP), took his oath of office at the\u00a0Presidential Secretariat\u00a0in the capital of Colombo, as hundreds of his supporters gathered outside, a news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UNP lawmakers told reporters that Wickremesinghe&#8217;s appointment had restored democracy in the country and the new government would now work towards strengthening the economy and unveiling new proposals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sri Lanka had been in a state of political turmoil after Ranil Wickremesinghe was suddenly sacked from his post in October and was replaced by former President Mahinda Rajapakse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sunday&#8217;s move came after\u00a0Mahinda Rajapakse\u00a0stepped down as prime minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A new cabinet under President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe is expected to be sworn in on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Ranil Wickremesinghe who was once sacked from the post of prime minister in October,\u00a0was sworn in\u00a0again on Sunday by\u00a0President\u00a0Maithripala Sirisena, a move that ended a nearly two-month political impasse that erupted after his surprising dismissal. Wickremesinghe, who is also the\u00a0leader\u00a0of the ruling United National Party (UNP), took his oath of office at the\u00a0Presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[5721,4881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307103,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307100\/revisions\/307103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}