{"id":46288,"date":"2022-07-11T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/sri-lanka-protests-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-to-quit"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T04:11:25","slug":"president-of-crisis-hit-sri-lanka-confirms-he-will-quit-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46288","title":{"rendered":"President of crisis-hit Sri Lanka confirms he will quit amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa informs PM\u2019s office of resignation intention as brother Basil is turned away at airport and opposition leader signals plan to run for president<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s government has confirmed the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is to resign, paving the way for the appointment of a successor, amid reports that the beleaguered leader had attempted to flee the country on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the office of the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, said \u201cRajapaksa has officially informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will be resigning\u201d, in the most formal confirmation yet that the president intends to step down later this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/sri-lanka-protests-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-to-quit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa informs PM\u2019s office of resignation intention as brother Basil is turned away at airport and opposition leader signals plan to run for presidentSri Lanka\u2019s government has confirmed the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is to resign, pavi&#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-46288","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\/46288","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=46288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46323,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288\/revisions\/46323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}