{"id":40723,"date":"2015-01-09T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40723"},"modified":"2015-01-09T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T21:23:18","slug":"maithri-takes-oath-as-president-and-ranil-wickremesinghe-was-sworn-in-as-sri-lankas-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/09\/maithri-takes-oath-as-president-and-ranil-wickremesinghe-was-sworn-in-as-sri-lankas-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Maithri takes oath as President and Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka\u2019s Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hot News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena sworn in as the 6th Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka before Supreme Court Judge K. Sri Pawan at the Independence Square in Colombo, a short while ago.\u00a0Taking oaths President Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0vowed not to contest for a second term in future signalling abolition of executive presidency within his term.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Sirisena&#8217;s swearing-in \u00a0United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in by president Maithripala Sirisena as Sri Lanka\u2019s Prime Minister this afternoon \u00a0at the\u00a0same place.\u00a0The move paves the way for a consensus government that will rule the country until the next parliamentary elections are held after April this\u00a0years.<\/p>\n<p>In an acceptance speech after the ceremony, Sirisena spoke about the difficulty of campaigning against the backdrop of intimidation by the ruling party and bias on the part of state-run media in favour of Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>He called on his supporters to celebrate peacefully. &#8220;We should not only to refrain from physically harming others, but also avoid causing any mental anguish,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot News President Maithripala Sirisena sworn in as the 6th Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka before Supreme Court Judge K. Sri Pawan at the Independence Square in Colombo, a short while ago.\u00a0Taking oaths President Maithripala Sirisena \u00a0vowed not to contest for a second term in future signalling abolition of executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40723","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=40723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}