{"id":78666,"date":"2022-07-21T00:36:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T04:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=78666"},"modified":"2022-07-21T09:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:49:58","slug":"ranil-wickremesinghe-sworn-in-as-8th-executive-president-of-sri-lankaold-cabinet-to-continue-until-opposition-ready-to-cooperate-in-all-party-govtdinesh-gunawardena-likely-to-be-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=78666","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickremesinghe Sworn in as 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka;Old cabinet to continue until opposition \u2018ready\u2019 to cooperate in all-party govt;Dinesh Gunawardena Likely to be Prime Ministe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Meera  Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was sworn in President of Sri Lanka on Thursday, is expected to appoint long-time Rajapaksa loyalist and senior politician Dinesh Gunawardena as Prime Minister, a source close to the President\u2019s office told  The Hindu.  <\/p>\n<p>Further, Mr. Wickremesinghe will continue with the last-appointed Cabinet until Opposition parties are \u201cready to cooperate\u201d in an all-party government, the source said, requesting anonymity.   <\/p>\n<p>President Wickremesinghe, who faces fierce public criticism for joining the discredited Rajapaksa government earlier, has invited all parties to join his government to combat the national economic crisis, which set off political upheaval and led to changes at the island nation\u2019s helm. Opposition parties are yet to signal their willingness. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following a party leaders\u2019 meeting on Thursday, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said in a tweet: \u201cMet with President @RW_UNP [Ranil Wickremesinghe] at the party leaders\u2019 meeting today. Had a cordial and frank exchange of ideas. Reiterated the opposition\u2019s determination to provide constructive support to avert misery and disaster.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Premadasa said he proposed to strengthen the committee system in Parliament to achieve national consensus \u201crather than dishing out ministerial portfolios to political opportunists resulting in a drain of scarce national resources.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wickremesinghe, who served as Prime Minister \u2014 his sixth stint in the office \u2014 since May and Acting President more recently, rose to Presidencyafter winning a key parliamentary vote on Wednesday, following mass protests that ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the country\u2019s highest office last week. The deposed leader fled the country and is now said to be in Singapore. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton78666\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D78666&amp;text=Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20Sworn%20in%20as%208th%20Executive%20President%20of%20Sri%20Lanka%3BOld%20cabinet%20to%20continue%20until%20opposition...%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>By Meera Srinivasan Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was sworn in President of Sri Lanka on Thursday, is expected to appoint long-time Rajapaksa loyalist and senior politician Dinesh Gunawardena as Prime Minister, a source close to the President\u2019s office told The Hindu. Further, Mr. Wickremesinghe will continue with the last-appointed Cabinet until Opposition parties are \u201cready to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=78666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ranil Wickremesinghe Sworn in as 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka;Old cabinet to continue until opposition \u2018ready\u2019 to cooperate in all-party govt;Dinesh Gunawardena Likely to be Prime Ministe&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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\/78666"}],"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=78666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78667,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78666\/revisions\/78667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}