{"id":126030,"date":"2022-06-07T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T22:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126030"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T22:27:43","slug":"president-invited-me-to-accept-premiership-hours-before-ranil-accepted-it-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/07\/president-invited-me-to-accept-premiership-hours-before-ranil-accepted-it-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"President invited me to accept Premiership hours before Ranil accepted it: SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should give credit to me as he was able to become the premier of this country because of him, SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told Parliament that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called him hours before Mr. Wickremesinghe was sworn in and wanted him to accept the premiership.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President invited me to accept Premiership hours before Ranil accepted it: SF\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KlPFCqKv-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He said however, he laid down certain conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I told him that I would only accept the Prime Minister\u2019s post only if the majority of SJB MPs backed me. Therefore, Mr. Wickremesinghe should give the credit to me for paving the way for him to become the Prime Minister,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SJB Parliamentarian said around 50% of MPs in the present Parliament today are racketeers and&nbsp; &nbsp;therefore it is not possible to change Sri Lanka\u2019s political culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Fonseka said that 15% of the MPs who have a vision should be appointed as cabinet Ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some members of the present cabinet consume heroin and spend their time at night clubs with prostitutes. Therefore the present cabinet is not capable of saving the nation,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<strong>(Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should give credit to me as he was able to become the premier of this country because of him, SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said today. He told Parliament that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called him hours before Mr. Wickremesinghe was sworn in and wanted him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}