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Dinesh Gunawardena Appointed Sri Lanka Prime Minister
Dinesh Gunawardena was appointed as Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister on Friday. He vowed as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka at the Prime Minister’s office in Colombo.
The picture shared by Sri Lanka media shows President Ranil Wickremesinghe to lead the oath taking ceremony.
Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to announce his new cabinet today. Dinesh Gunwardena was the first of many faces that were expected to lead the nation out of the economic crisis he found.
Gunawardena represented the Mahajana EXATH Peramuna (MEP) from Maharamana and the Colombo District and entered the politics of elections during the 1970s.
Gunawardena has served as Cabinet Minister in the previous government. He has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Urban Development and has held several other roles during his political career which stretches more than five decades.
Sri Lanka’s media outlet said that Gunawardena was closely related to the Rajapaksa family, which was likely to damage its credibility.
Sri Lanka people are also protesters who have shown that demanding changes in Sri Lanka’s politics after the economic crisis is not ready to accept anyone who is close to Rajapaksas in the driver’s seat.
The protesters and the masses have not been kindly with the appointment of Ranil Wickremesinghe as president of the island countries and it is impossible to accept Gunawardena.
Gunawardena was previously against Ranil Wickremesinghe when Wickremesinghe was the prime minister under the presidency of Maithripala Sirisena.
The appointment of Gunawardena came in the midst of a strong action against the protesters who occupied Galle to face the seafood, the President’s secretariat, the residence of the President and the Prime Minister’s office.
Starting on midnight Friday, police and army personnel, armed with sticks arrive at trucks and bus around midnight and take off the tent and protest the banners while breaking the temporary structure.
The leaders of the opposition and the US and Canadian high commission have urged the government not to suppress protests.
Sri Lanka Police spokesman Nihal Talduwa said that no protest was permitted near the Presidential Secretariat Complex and said the protesters were told to move to other designated protest sites.
