{"id":108050,"date":"2024-09-28T19:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T12:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108050"},"modified":"2024-09-28T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T12:55:50","slug":"sri-lanka-swears-in-new-left-leaning-president-anura-kumara-dissanayake-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108050","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka swears in new left-leaning president Anura Kumara Dissanayake | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nojxiXbsEfw?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Sri Lanka&#8217;s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office, promising &#8220;clean&#8221; politics as the country recovers from its worst economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The left-leaning Dissanayake has cast himself as a disruptor of the status quo, and analysts see his victory as a rejection of corruption and cronyism that has long plagued the country.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s election was the first since 2022, when discontent over the economy fuelled mass protests and chased former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to establish a new clean political culture,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I commit to achieving this. We will do the utmost to win back the people\u2019s respect and trust in the political system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nojxiXbsEfw\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office, promising &#8220;clean&#8221; politics as the country recovers from its worst economic crisis. The left-leaning Dissanayake has cast himself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108050\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}