{"id":62188,"date":"2018-12-14T20:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T01:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=62188"},"modified":"2018-12-14T23:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T04:39:28","slug":"maithripala-sirisena-in-telephone-conversation-with-ranil-wickremesinghe-agrees-to-re-appoint-ousted-unp-leader-as-prime-minister-on-sunday-december-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=62188","title":{"rendered":"Maithripala Sirisena in Telephone Conversation with Ranil Wickremesinghe   Agrees to Re-appoint Ousted UNP Leader as Prime Minister on Sunday December 16th."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UNP sources say ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be reappointed Prime Minister on Sunday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This follows a telephone conversation between President Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickremesinghe that took place a short while ago. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was appointed Prime Minister in a surprise move seven weeks ago, triggering the political crisis in Sri Lanka, has said that he will step down from the position. <\/p>\n<p>He is expected to officially resign tomorrow while making a special address to the nation. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton62188\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D62188&amp;text=Maithripala%20Sirisena%20in%20Telephone%20Conversation%20with%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20%20%20Agrees%20to%20Re-appoint%20Ousted%20UNP...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNP sources say ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be reappointed Prime Minister on Sunday. This follows a telephone conversation between President Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickremesinghe that took place a short while ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62194,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62188\/revisions\/62194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}