{"id":44553,"date":"2022-05-17T01:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/16\/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-new-prime-minister-ranil-wickremesinghe"},"modified":"2022-05-17T01:44:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:44:07","slug":"sri-lankas-new-pm-warns-most-difficult-months-of-our-lives-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44553","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s new PM warns \u2018most difficult months of our lives\u2019 ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe says country\u2019s finances \u2018extremely precarious\u2019 in first address since appointment<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s new prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/sri-lanka-is-the-first-domino-to-fall-in-the-face-of-a-global-debt-crisis\">the financial crisis engulfing the country<\/a> will get worse and \u201cthe next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In his first address to the country since he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/ranil-wickremesinghe-former-sri-lanka-pm-lead-unity-government-after-violence\">appointed as interim prime minister on Thursday<\/a>, after Mahinda Rajapaksa stepped down from the role amid Sri Lanka\u2019s worst economic crash since independence, Wickremesinghe was blunt as he described the conditions of the country\u2019s finances as \u201cextremely precarious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/16\/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-new-prime-minister-ranil-wickremesinghe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe says country\u2019s finances \u2018extremely precarious\u2019 in first address since appointmentSri Lanka\u2019s new prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has warned that the financial crisis engulfing the country will get worse and \u201cthe next couple o&#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-44553","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\/44553","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=44553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44554,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44553\/revisions\/44554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}