{"id":46595,"date":"2022-07-20T17:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/20\/sri-lanka-president-vote-ranil-wickremesinghe-wins-amid-protests"},"modified":"2022-07-21T00:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:49:45","slug":"sri-lanka-president-vote-ranil-wickremesinghe-wins-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46595","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka president vote: Ranil Wickremesinghe wins amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs pick ex-PM  seen as close to ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a move likely to frustrate protesters<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/18\/ranil-wickremesinghe-wily-fox-who-became-sri-lanka-pm-six-times-profile\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/a>, has been elected as president to replace the ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a result that is likely to provoke turmoil among protesters who have been calling for weeks for him to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe, who has been prime minister six times but never president, won a comfortable victory in parliament on Wednesday morning, where MPs voted for the new president in an unprecedented secret ballot. The vote came after protesters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/16\/i-screamed-and-cried-how-sri-lankan-protesters-unseated-their-president\">forced Rajapaksa from office<\/a> amid anger over a spiralling economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/20\/sri-lanka-president-vote-ranil-wickremesinghe-wins-amid-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs pick ex-PM  seen as close to ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a move likely to frustrate protestersSri Lanka\u2019s prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been elected as president to replace the ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a result that is likely&#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-46595","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\/46595","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=46595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46611,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46595\/revisions\/46611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}