{"id":12000,"date":"2022-07-21T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T10:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=12000"},"modified":"2022-07-21T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T10:47:59","slug":"ranil-wickremesinghe-takes-oaths-as-8th-executive-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/ranil-wickremesinghe-takes-oaths-as-8th-executive-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickremesinghe takes oaths as 8th Executive President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was sworn in before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at the Parliament complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wickremesinghe was elected President by Parliament yesterday securing 134 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MP Dullas Alahapperuma secured 82 votes while MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake secured just 03 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the 225 members of Parliament 223 had cast their votes of which four were declared invalid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ranil Wickremesinghe, National Peoples Power (NPP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake and MP Dullas Alahapperuma had been nominated for President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka today.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12002,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions\/12002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}