{"id":1281,"date":"2017-05-20T17:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2017-05-20T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:54:42","slug":"finance-minister-ravi-karunanayake-to-be-the-new-foreign-affairs-minister-while-foreign-minister-mangala-samaraweera-will-take-over-as-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/finance-minister-ravi-karunanayake-to-be-the-new-foreign-affairs-minister-while-foreign-minister-mangala-samaraweera-will-take-over-as-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake to be the New Foreign Affairs Minister while Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera will take over as Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United National Party (UNP), the key party of the government, has finally consented to the proposed Cabinet reshuffle to be scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the UNP had opposed any changes to the portfolios assigned to its members.<\/p>\n<p>However, the party leadership had given the green light for a change in the portfolios after a meeting with President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake is to be appointed as Foreign Minister;<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera to be appointed as Finance and Media Minister;<\/p>\n<p>Media Minister Gayantha Karunatilleke to be appointed as Minister of Public Administration and Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara to be appointed as Minister of Lands<\/p>\n<p>Changes are to be made to the portfolios earlier assigned to the members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) headed by the President.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said she too believed that it would be better to carry out a Cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United National Party (UNP), the key party of the government, has finally consented&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","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=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}