{"id":46260,"date":"2022-07-11T02:29:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T17:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/sri-lankan-opposition-parties-plan-unity-government-after-president-quits"},"modified":"2022-07-11T02:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T17:29:58","slug":"sri-lankan-opposition-parties-plan-unity-government-after-president-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46260","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan opposition parties plan unity government after president quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister as well as Rajapaksa will step down after months of protests culminated in attacks on their homes<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s main opposition parties have hurriedly moved to form an all-party unity government a day after the president and the prime minister said they would resign from office after mounting public pressure.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, leaders from the main opposition political parties met to discuss an effective transition of power, following the much anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/sri-lanka-protests-thousands-storm-presidents-residence-colombo\">resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/a> on 13 July.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/sri-lankan-opposition-parties-plan-unity-government-after-president-quits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister as well as Rajapaksa will step down after months of protests culminated in attacks on their homesSri Lanka\u2019s main opposition parties have hurriedly moved to form an all-party unity government a day after the president and the prime minis&#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":[80,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","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\/46260","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=46260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46261,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46260\/revisions\/46261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}