{"id":4794,"date":"2018-12-14T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2018-12-14T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T04:40:00","slug":"president-expected-to-appoint-new-pm-by-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/president-expected-to-appoint-new-pm-by-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"President expected to appoint new PM by Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena is expected to appoint a new Prime Minister and cabinet by Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President had said this during a meeting with members of the United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He had however said that he will not appoint United National Front leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President had expressed these views when the UPFA met yesterday after the Supreme Court ruled that the dissolution of Parliament by President Maithripala Sirisena was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Delivering its ruling, a seven judge bench had said that the President cannot dissolve Parliament till Parliament completes its full 4 1\/2 year term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The court also noted that if the President wants to dissolve Parliament early he must have 2\/3rd majority support for the move in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena is expected to appoint a new Prime Minister and cabinet by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4795,"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-4794","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\/4794","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=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}