{"id":44435,"date":"2022-05-12T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/sri-lanka-president-to-name-new-pm-as-unrest-simmers-amid-economic-crisis"},"modified":"2022-05-12T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T05:41:00","slug":"sri-lanka-president-to-name-new-pm-as-unrest-simmers-amid-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44435","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka president to name new PM as unrest simmers amid economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned this week after his supporters attacked anti-government protesters and ran riot in Colombo, unleashing days of violence<\/p>\n<p>Beleaguered president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was set to name a new prime minister on Thursday to try to steer Sri Lanka out of its dire economic crisis after days of violence, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Respected five-time former premier Ranil Wickremesinghe was the frontrunner to head a \u201cunity government\u201d with cross-party support in the 225-member parliament and replace Rajapaksa\u2019s elder brother Mahinda who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/sri-lanka-ruling-party-supporters-storm-protest-site-in-colombo\">stepped down on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/sri-lanka-president-to-name-new-pm-as-unrest-simmers-amid-economic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned this week after his supporters attacked anti-government protesters and ran riot in Colombo, unleashing days of violenceBeleaguered president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was set to name a new prime minister on Thursday to try to steer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-44435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44436,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435\/revisions\/44436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}