{"id":71242,"date":"2024-09-23T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/sri-lanka-swears-in-new-left-leaning-president-anura-kumara-dissanayake-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T14:54:29","slug":"sri-lanka-swears-in-new-left-leaning-president-anura-kumara-dissanayake-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/sri-lanka-swears-in-new-left-leaning-president-anura-kumara-dissanayake-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka swears in new left-leaning president Anura Kumara Dissanayake | BBC News"},"content":{"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 <!--more--> 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: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}