{"id":26792,"date":"2024-09-23T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T07:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=26792"},"modified":"2024-09-24T20:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:04:18","slug":"anura-kumara-dissanayake-sworn-in-as-the-ninth-executive-president-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=26792","title":{"rendered":"Anura Kumara Dissanayake sworn in as the ninth Executive President of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the National People&#8217;s Power, was sworn in as the 9th Executive President of Sri Lanka this morning (23rd) in the presence of Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at the President&#8217;s Secretariat in Colombo.<br \/>NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the 2024 presidential election by obtaining 5,740,179 votes. His victory will go down in history as the first president of the country to be elected by a socialist-leaning party that had only 03 seats in the parliament.<br \/>Anura Kumara Dissanayake contested for the presidency in the 2019 presidential election, but he received only 03% of the total votes cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"LIVE | \u0da2\u0db1\u0dcf\u0db0\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0db0\u0dd6\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dda \u0daf\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0db8\u0dca \u0daf\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dda \u0d85\u0dc0\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dae\u0dcf\u0dc0 | \u0b9c\u0ba9\u0bbe\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bbf \u0baa\u0ba4\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bae\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0ba3\u0bae\u0bcd | 2024.09.23\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eb_OLZLcn9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-26792' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=26792&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-26792' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-26792' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-26792' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-26792'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-26792' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-26792 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the National People&#8217;s Power, was sworn in as the 9th Executive President of Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","category-political","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26795,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26792\/revisions\/26795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}