{"id":95296,"date":"2019-11-17T07:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95296"},"modified":"2019-11-17T07:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T14:18:51","slug":"mangala-resigns-as-sri-lankas-minister-of-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/17\/mangala-resigns-as-sri-lankas-minister-of-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangala resigns as Sri Lanka\u2019s Minister of Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Lanka Business Online<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Nov 17, 2019 (LBO) \u2013 Mangala Samaraweera has resigned as Minister of Finance with immediate effect following the Presidential Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, Minister Malik Samarawickrama, Ajith P Perera and Harin Fernando resigned from their ministerial portfolios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resignation letter addressed to President Maithripala Sirisena:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankabusinessonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Resignation-letter-17.11.2019.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137868\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Lanka Business Online Nov 17, 2019 (LBO) \u2013 Mangala Samaraweera has resigned as Minister of Finance with immediate effect following the Presidential Election. Earlier in the day, Minister Malik Samarawickrama, Ajith P Perera and Harin Fernando resigned from their ministerial portfolios. Resignation letter addressed to President Maithripala Sirisena:<\/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-95296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95296","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=95296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}