{"id":255043,"date":"2024-11-15T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T09:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=255043"},"modified":"2024-11-15T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T09:53:38","slug":"landslide-for-aruna-kumara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/landslide-for-aruna-kumara\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslide for Aruna Kumara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake&#8217;s leftist coalition won a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, results showed Friday, as voters repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept September presidential elections on a promise to combat graft and recover stolen assets, two years after a slow-motion financial crash imposed widespread hardships on the island nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His decision to immediately call polls and secure parliamentary backing for his agenda was vindicated on Friday, with his National People&#8217;s Power (NPP) coalition taking at least 123 seats in the 225-member assembly and on track to win many more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coalition had a monumental 62 percent of the vote among the more than three-quarters of ballots counted so far, while opposition leader Sajith Premadasa&#8217;s party was well behind with only 18 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake&#8217;s leftist coalition won a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, results showed Friday, as voters repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis. Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept September presidential elections on a promise to combat graft and recover stolen assets, two years after a slow-motion financial crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[116138,116137,116139],"class_list":["post-255043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-aruna-kumara","tag-landslide-for-aruna-kumara","tag-srilanka-president"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/srilanka.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255045,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255043\/revisions\/255045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}