{"id":27696,"date":"2024-11-18T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=27696"},"modified":"2024-11-18T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:42:06","slug":"defence-finance-economics-and-digital-under-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=27696","title":{"rendered":"Defence, Finance, Economics and Digital under President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the new government, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will hold the Defense, Finance, Planning, Economic Development, and Digital Economy portfolios in the Presidential Media Division.<br \/>The swearing-in of new government ministers took place at 10.00 a.m. today (18), and 21 elected members of parliament were sworn in as ministers.<br \/>Dr. Harini Amarasuriya was sworn in as the Prime Minister and the Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education.<br \/>Accordingly, the National People&#8217;s Power government has appointed a cabinet of 22 ministers, including the president.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-27696' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=27696&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-27696' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-27696' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-27696' 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-27696'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-27696' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-27696 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new government, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will hold the Defense, Finance, Planning, Economic Development, and Digital Economy portfolios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26950,"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-27696","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\/27696","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=27696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27698,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27696\/revisions\/27698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}