{"id":25777,"date":"2022-07-21T03:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=25777"},"modified":"2022-07-21T03:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:44:50","slug":"hes-not-our-president-protesters-reject-new-sri-lankan-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=25777","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s not our president\u2019: Protesters reject new Sri Lankan leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ALJAZEERA News:-   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anti-government protesters have returned to the streets of Sri Lanka\u2019s capital and say they will continue their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/7\/18\/supreme-power-of-people-sri-lanka-marks-100-days-of-protests\">weeks-long uprising<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0parliament voted in acting leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/7\/20\/ranil-wickremesinghe-elected-crisis-hit-sri-lankas-new-president\">new president<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of protesters gathered at the GotaGoGama site in Colombo on Wednesday, where only last week they had celebrated Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/7\/15\/the-divisive-legacy-of-gotabaya-rajapaksa-sri-lanka\">resignation as president<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the crowds, protest leaders refused to accept six-time Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, 73, as the new head of state, holding him partly responsible for the country\u2019s unprecedented economic and political crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs you know, the parliament elected a new president today, but that president is not new to us, it is not the people\u2019s mandate,\u201d Wasantha Mudalige, the leader of Inter University Student Federation, told the crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe managed to kick out Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who secured 6.9 million votes, but Ranil Wickremesinghe has now secured that seat from the back seat,\u201d he added. \u201cRanil isn\u2019t our president \u2026 the people\u2019s mandate is on the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALJAZEERA News:- Anti-government protesters have returned to the streets of Sri Lanka\u2019s capital and say they will continue their weeks-long uprising\u00a0after\u00a0parliament voted in acting leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country\u2019s new president. Hundreds of protesters gathered at the GotaGoGama site in Colombo on Wednesday, where only last week they had celebrated Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s resignation as president. Addressing the crowds, protest leaders refused to accept six-time Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, 73, as the new head of state, holding him partly responsible for the country\u2019s unprecedented economic and political crisis. \u201cAs you know, the parliament elected a new president today, but that president&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25779,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions\/25779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}