{"id":7567,"date":"2019-11-20T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7567"},"modified":"2019-11-20T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:30:54","slug":"president-to-appoint-15-members-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/president-to-appoint-15-members-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"President to appoint 15 members Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will step down today making the way for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appoint a new Cabinet, Daily Mirror learns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The Prime Minister called on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday and discussed it. He will have a special Cabinet meeting at 4.00 p.m. today. Afterwards, he will make a public statement announcing his resignation from office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Later, the President is slated to appoint a small Cabinet to govern the country for a brief period till the dissolution of parliament after March 1, next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">In the formation of the Cabinet, the leaders of the parties that backed the President will be given preference. According to sources, it will be a Cabinet of 15 members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">At yesterday\u2019s meeting, the Prime Minister brought to the notice of the President the alleged post-election violence targeting the UNP supporters in some areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The President promptly instructed the authorities concerned to look into it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 150%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will step down today making the way for President Gotabaya&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7568,"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-7567","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\/7567","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=7567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}