{"id":94908,"date":"2019-11-07T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T23:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94908"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T23:31:37","slug":"will-appoint-a-new-pm-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/07\/will-appoint-a-new-pm-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"Will appoint a new PM: Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa said once voted into office he would appoint a new prime minister who he felt could command a majority in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I will not include any individual accused of corruption in my ministerial cabinet,&#8221; he said making a special announcement at a private TV station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I will appoint a new Prime Minister : Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EQP8aQ1xJdk?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>His remarks came after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe recently told reporters that he would continue to remain in his position as PM during Premadasa\u2019s tenure as president as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDF candidate emphasised that he would appoint a cabinet of ministers comprising of young and skilled individuals who would publicly declare their assets and liabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he would conduct the parliamentary elections at the earliest\u201d, and appoint a stable government\u201d that would see only professionals and women entering parliament through the national list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepotism and the old corrupt political system should end. Authoritarian politics which sees individuals clinging onto power by use of force or violence should end,\u201d Premadasa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror New Democratic Front (NDF) presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa said once voted into office he would appoint a new prime minister who he felt could command a majority in parliament. &#8220;I will not include any individual accused of corruption in my ministerial cabinet,&#8221; he said making a special announcement at a private [&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-94908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94908","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=94908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}