{"id":42222,"date":"2024-09-25T03:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=42222"},"modified":"2024-09-25T03:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:23:38","slug":"sri-lankas-new-president-dissolves-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=42222","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s new president dissolves parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s new president has dissolved parliament to make way for a snap general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved the 225-member parliament in which his left-leaning National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) alliance had just three seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election will take place on 14 November, almost a year ahead of schedule, according to a notification in the official government gazette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president also selected his ally Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Tuesday, choosing a woman for the third time in the country&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Sri Lanka&#8217;s new president has dissolved parliament to make way for a snap general election. Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved the 225-member parliament in which his left-leaning National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) alliance had just three seats. The election will take place on 14 November, almost a year ahead of schedule, according to a notification in the official government gazette. The president also selected his ally Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Tuesday, choosing a woman for the third time in the country&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42222","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\/42222","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=42222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42224,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42222\/revisions\/42224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}