{"id":75763,"date":"2018-03-18T11:03:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=75763"},"modified":"2018-03-18T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T18:03:47","slug":"tide-is-turning-against-both-president-and-the-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/18\/tide-is-turning-against-both-president-and-the-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"TIDE IS TURNING AGAINST BOTH PRESIDENT AND THE\u00a0\u00a0PRIME MINISTER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The President Maithreepala Sirisena is personally indebted to the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe for elevating him to the rank of the President of the country.\u00a0\u00a0Has he paid back his debt sufficiently?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UNP administrative machine is no more the power base of RW.\u00a0\u00a0The grass root UNP support is no more the power base of RW.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also not powerless.\u00a0\u00a0He derives his power from two primary sources, firstly from the Tamil dominated anti-Sinhala Western-Indian power block and secondly from the high Office of the land, the Office of the President<strong>.\u00a0\u00a0The support of the President\u00a0\u00a0for the PM is ROCK SOLID.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>We had some respect for RW in the past as Mr Clean, a man without corruption.\u00a0\u00a0He is now not any more Mr Clean.\u00a0\u00a0In contrast, the general public never had any favourable impressions of Mr Maithreepala Sirisena.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0In the process of trying to protect the Prime Minister, the President has gone enormous distance, in the process of trying to ensure UNP victory at the most recent elections, the President had tarnished his image as a Leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now both the President and PM are powerless.\u00a0\u00a0They cannot rule the country by Guns. The Sri Lankan Armed Forces have been marginalised\u00a0\u00a0and their dedicated families have been ill-treated by\u00a0\u00a0both the President and the Prime Minister<strong>.\u00a0\u00a0It is unusual for the men and women of Armed Forces to forgive and forget the corrupt leaders, as they themselves have realized that the general public is no longer support the Executive President and the Executive Prime Minister of the land.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The under current situation is extremely volatile, shaky, transient and capricious.\u00a0\u00a0It is not about just two persons.\u00a0\u00a0It is about\u00a0\u00a021 million Sri Lankans!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The President Maithreepala Sirisena is personally indebted to the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe for elevating him to the rank of the President of the country.\u00a0\u00a0Has he paid back his debt sufficiently? The UNP administrative machine is no more the power base of RW.\u00a0\u00a0The grass root UNP support is no more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75763","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=75763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}