{"id":145746,"date":"2024-11-12T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145746"},"modified":"2024-11-12T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T00:52:07","slug":"wickremesinghe-urges-government-to-present-economic-policy-criticizes-lack-of-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/12\/wickremesinghe-urges-government-to-present-economic-policy-criticizes-lack-of-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickremesinghe urges government to present economic policy, criticizes lack of experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called on the current government, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, to put forward its economic policy, emphasizing the need for a solution to the ongoing economic crisis. Wickremesinghe made these remarks at a public meeting organized by the New Democratic Front in Maradana for the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the crowd, Wickremesinghe criticized the government&amp;rsquo;s lack of experience, holding up an &amp;ldquo;L-board&amp;rdquo; and describing the administration as an &#8220;L-board government,&#8221; implying it is akin to a novice driver&#8217;s designation. He remarked that inexperience at all levels of leadership has contributed to the nation&amp;rsquo;s growing economic challenges, making them increasingly difficult to resolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called on the current government, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, to put forward its economic policy, emphasizing the need for a solution to the ongoing economic crisis. Wickremesinghe made these remarks at a public meeting organized by the New Democratic Front in Maradana for the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-ranil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145746","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=145746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}