{"id":9405,"date":"2022-07-20T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:46:11","slug":"six-time-pm-wickremesinghe-wins-sri-lanka-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/six-time-pm-wickremesinghe-wins-sri-lanka-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-time PM Wickremesinghe wins Sri Lanka presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six-time PM Wickremesinghe wins Sri Lanka presidency. Sri Lanka\u2019s six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Wednesday overwhelmingly elected as president to replace Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the crisis-wracked country and resigned last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Official results showed Wickremesinghe polled 134 votes in a three-cornered parliamentary vote, with his main opponent Dullas Alahapperuma getting 82 and leftist Anura Dissanayake just three — giving him an absolute majority on first preferences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Our divisions are now over,” Wickremesinghe said in a brief acceptance speech in parliament, inviting Alahapperuma “to join me and work together to bring the country out of the crisis we are facing”.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said he hoped to be sworn in later Wednesday at a simple ceremony within the tightly guarded parliament building.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the elevation of the 73-year-old to the top job, the current cabinet automatically stands dissolved and he will choose a prime minister to form a new cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaker Mahinda Abeywardana said the attention of the world was focused on the Sri Lankan legislature as it elected a leader to serve the balance period of Rajapaksa\u2019s term ending November 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is a historic session, not only for parliament but the entire country,” Abeywardana said. “The eyes of the world are on us today as we elect a new president.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six-time PM Wickremesinghe wins Sri Lanka presidency. Sri Lanka\u2019s six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Wednesday overwhelmingly elected as president to replace Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the crisis-wracked country and resigned last week. Official results showed Wickremesinghe polled 134 votes in a three-cornered parliamentary vote, with his main opponent Dullas Alahapperuma getting 82 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6189],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ranil-wickremesinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}