{"id":7555,"date":"2019-11-18T04:38:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2019-11-18T04:38:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:38:15","slug":"sri-lankas-new-president-to-be-sworn-in-at-ruwanweli-seya-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankas-new-president-to-be-sworn-in-at-ruwanweli-seya-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s new President to be sworn-in at Ruwanweli Seya today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be sworn in as the seventh Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka at the Ruwanweli Seva Maha Viharaya in Anuradhapura this morning (18). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Before taking oaths, he will observe religious rituals at Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi and the Ruwanweli Seya this morning. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">After taking oaths, Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa will address the nation at the Ruwanweli Seya. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Leader of the Opposition, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa, founder of the SLPP and a large number of parliamentarians will participate in the event. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election makes history as the SLPP, a new party formed two years ago scored a major victory at a Presidential election. It is also noteworthy that for the first time Sri Lanka elected a non-politician to lead the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be sworn in as the seventh Executive President of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7556,"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-7555","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\/7555","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=7555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}