{"id":31311,"date":"2018-10-27T13:04:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31311"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:34:57","slug":"sri-lankas-first-national-unity-government-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lankas-first-national-unity-government-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s first national unity government in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/sri-lankas-first-national-unity-government-in-trouble\/article22745449.ece\"><b>Sri Lanka\u2019s first national unity government in trouble<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b> Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sri Lankan first national unity government is in trouble<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What has happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sri Lankan President and PM have failed to reach consensus on the future of their coalition government, following the huge defeat their parties has suffered in the recent local government elections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have decided to set up a committee to chart out the next steps and \u201creform proposals\u201d for their cohabitation government. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the two parties tried reaching an agreement, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe came under pressure to resign<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid the political developments, Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka met President Sirisena and PM Wickremesinghe in separate meetings to discuss bilateral issues<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Wickremesinghe\u2019s United National Party (UNP) and the Sirisena-led faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), its traditional rival, have been in government together since 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They had jointly ousted former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a historic election<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other faction of the SLFP supports Mr. Rajapaksa and sits in the Opposition.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the February 10 local government polls, the partners in national government contested separately and lost to the newly formed party, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), or Sri Lanka People\u2019s Front backed by Mr. Rajapaksa<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s first national unity government in trouble Context: Sri Lankan first national unity government is in trouble What has happened? Sri Lankan President and PM have failed to reach consensus on the future of their coalition government, following the huge defeat their parties has suffered in the recent local government elections. They have decided&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sri-lankas-first-national-unity-government-in-trouble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sri Lanka\u2019s first national unity government in trouble<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704796817},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}