{"id":11376,"date":"2019-11-22T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/sri-lankas-president-rajapaksa-cements-family-power-as-brothers-join-cabinet"},"modified":"2019-11-22T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:33:37","slug":"sri-lankas-president-rajapaksa-cements-family-power-as-brothers-join-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11376","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s president Rajapaksa cements family power as brothers join cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa becomes prime minister and finance minister, another becomes agriculture minister<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s new president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has begun concentrating power within his own powerful family, appointing one brother Mahinda as both prime minister and finance minister and another brother as minister of agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/17\/the-terminator-how-gotabaya-rajapaksas-ruthless-streak-led-him-to-power-sri-lanka\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/a>, the candidate for the SLPP, the Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist party, won an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/17\/sri-lanka-presidential-candidate-rajapaksa-premadas-count-continues\">overwhelming victory<\/a> in Sri Lanka\u2019s presidential polls last weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/sri-lankas-president-rajapaksa-cements-family-power-as-brothers-join-cabinet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa becomes prime minister and finance minister, another becomes agriculture ministerSri Lanka\u2019s new president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has begun concentrating power within his own powerful family, appointing one brother Mahinda as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions\/11377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}