{"id":66910,"date":"2024-09-24T00:21:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/23\/anura-kumara-dissanayake-who-is-sri-lanka-new-leftist-president"},"modified":"2024-09-24T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:21:42","slug":"anura-kumara-dissanayake-who-is-sri-lankas-new-leftist-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66910","title":{"rendered":"Anura Kumara Dissanayake: who is Sri Lanka\u2019s new leftist president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JVP leader has positioned himself as opposite to political elites but not all have greeted his win with optimism<\/p>\n<p>As he was sworn in as Sri Lanka\u2019s new president on Monday morning, Anura Kumara Dissanayake heralded a \u201cnew era of renaissance\u201d for the country. Many believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/22\/sri-lanka-presidential-election-runoff-second-round-vote-count\">Dissanayake\u2019s election<\/a> marks a significant political pivot for Sri Lanka, which has been ruled by a rotation of the same few parties and families for decades, leading to a continuing economic recession and deep-rooted mistrust of traditional political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Swathes of the population said it was the promise of change that brought them to vote for the leftist leader for the first time last weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/23\/anura-kumara-dissanayake-who-is-sri-lanka-new-leftist-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JVP leader has positioned himself as opposite to political elites but not all have greeted his win with optimismAs he was sworn in as Sri Lanka\u2019s new president on Monday morning, Anura Kumara Dissanayake heralded a \u201cnew era of renaissance\u201d for the coun&#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-66910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66910","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=66910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66911,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66910\/revisions\/66911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}