{"id":133,"date":"2016-10-18T06:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=133"},"modified":"2016-10-18T07:16:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:16:33","slug":"ex-president-chandrika-kumaratunga-returns-urgently-from-uk-to-resolve-coalition-govt-crisis-between-president-and-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/ex-president-chandrika-kumaratunga-returns-urgently-from-uk-to-resolve-coalition-govt-crisis-between-president-and-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-President Chandrika Kumaratunga returns urgently from UK to resolve coalition Govt crisis between President and Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who was in London on a visit and scheduled to return to Sri Lanka only later this week, has decided to return early in view of the deepening political crisis within the ruling coalition,Daily FT learns.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Kumaratunga, who played a major role in effecting the defection of Maithripala Sirisena from the Rajapaksa Government, will return to the island today, authoritative sources told Daily FT.<\/p>\n<p>Kumaratunga is expected to hold talks with President Sirisena and senior SLFP members in a bid to resolve the prevailing crisis within the ruling coalition.<\/p>\n<p>She is also expected to speak with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe when he returns to Colombo from Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The former President, who is also the former Leader of the SLFP, was reportedly furious over the President\u2019s remarks which had put the coalition of rivals in serious jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Daily FT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who was in London on a visit and scheduled to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134,"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-133","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\/133","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=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}