{"id":44445,"date":"2022-05-13T01:21:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/ranil-wickremesinghe-former-sri-lanka-pm-lead-unity-government-after-violence"},"modified":"2022-05-13T01:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:21:24","slug":"sri-lanka-president-brings-back-five-time-former-pm-in-effort-to-ease-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44445","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka president brings back five-time former PM in effort to ease crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed to lead \u2018unity government\u2019 after days of deadly violence<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s beleaguered president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has sworn in a new prime minister to replace his brother as the country reels from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/troops-rescue-outgoing-sri-lanka-pm-as-houses-torched-in-deadly-night-of-unrest\">days of violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new PM, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has held the post five times before, will head up a \u201cunity government\u201d tasked with finding a way out of Sri Lanka\u2019s worst economic crisis since independence, with severe shortages of food, fuel and medicines and long power cuts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/ranil-wickremesinghe-former-sri-lanka-pm-lead-unity-government-after-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed to lead \u2018unity government\u2019 after days of deadly violenceSri Lanka\u2019s beleaguered president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has sworn in a new prime minister to replace his brother as the country reels from days of violence.The new PM&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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-44445","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\/44445","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44446,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44445\/revisions\/44446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}