{"id":46423,"date":"2022-07-15T00:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T15:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-quits-protests"},"modified":"2022-07-15T00:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T15:47:36","slug":"sri-lankas-president-quits-after-fleeing-protests-in-crisis-hit-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46423","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s president quits after fleeing protests in crisis-hit country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled country on Wednesday after protesters occupied presidential palace<\/p>\n<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned as president of Sri Lanka a day after fleeing weeks of mass protests over the country\u2019s economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa\u2019s office said his resignation letter had been received by the country\u2019s parliamentary speaker, after it was flown from Singapore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/sri-lanka-on-a-knife-edge-as-promised-rajapaksa-resignation-fails-to-arrive\">to where the leader had fled<\/a> via the Maldives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-quits-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled country on Wednesday after protesters occupied presidential palaceGotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned as president of Sri Lanka a day after fleeing weeks of mass protests over the country\u2019s economic crisis.Rajapaksa\u2019s office said hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"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-46423","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\/46423","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\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46424,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46423\/revisions\/46424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}