{"id":46443,"date":"2022-07-15T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/15\/sri-lanka-mps-to-elect-new-president-after-gotabaya-rajapaksa-officially-resigns"},"modified":"2022-07-16T01:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:35:06","slug":"sri-lankas-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-officially-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46443","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa officially resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe to serve until MPs vote for new leader next week after months of protests over economic crisis<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been sworn in as the country\u2019s interim president after Gotabaya Rajapaksa officially resigned on Friday morning following months of protests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-quits-protests\">Rajapaksa\u2019s resignation<\/a> came after a dramatic week in which the beleaguered leader fled the country under the cover of darkness, after his presidential palace and offices were stormed by protesters last weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/15\/sri-lanka-mps-to-elect-new-president-after-gotabaya-rajapaksa-officially-resigns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe to serve until MPs vote for new leader next week after months of protests over economic crisisSri Lanka\u2019s prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been sworn in as the country\u2019s interim president after Gotabaya Rajapaksa officiall&#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":[80,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46443","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\/46443","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=46443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46467,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46443\/revisions\/46467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}