{"id":61372,"date":"2018-11-01T08:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61372"},"modified":"2018-11-01T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:54:12","slug":"president-sirisena-will-re-convene-parliament-on-nov-5th-and-not-on-nov-16th-but-speaker-will-allocate-prime-minister-seat-to-mahinda-rajapaksa-gazetted-as-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61372","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena Will Re-convene Parliament on Nov 5th and not on Nov 16th but Speaker Will Allocate Prime Minister Seat to Mahinda Rajapaksa Gazetted as PM."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nBy<\/p>\n<p>Meera Srinivasan <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the face of growing calls to end week-long political impasse in the country, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has reconvened Parliament on November 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParliament will reconvene on Monday,\u201d a top official at the President&#8217;s office told The Hindu on Thursday morning, confirming Mr. Sirisena\u2019s decision to partially revoke his order that suspended the House till November 16.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement makes a floor test possible, where controversially deposed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe \u2014 sacked by Mr. Sirisena on Friday \u2014 and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, appointed in his place, could prove their competing claims to majority in the 225-member House.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday morning, the Wickremesinghe-led United National Front (UNF), as well as the Sirisena-Rajapaksa combine, had a little over 100 MPs each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All eyes on TNA, JVP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All eyes are on the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which has 16 MPs representing the island\u2019s north and east, and the leftist Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) with six MPs. Their vote might prove decisive in a close contest.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajapaksa has already sought TNA leader R. Sampanthan\u2019s support, but the senior Tamil leader said he could consider the option only if Mr. Rajapaksa shared a clear plan of action on measures to resolve the pending concerns of the war-affected Tamil minority.<\/p>\n<p>A snap move by President Sirisena on Friday last plunged the island nation into a political crisis, with two Prime Ministers and parallel Cabinets. It followed his withdrawal of support from the country\u2019s national unity government, and marked his realignment with former rival, Mr. Rajapaksa. Mr. Sirisena prorogued Parliament shortly after, sparking considerable domestic and international concern over what many deemed an \u201cunconstitutional\u201d move, though his office has claimed following the due process.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a spokesman at the Speaker\u2019s office told local media that when Parliament reconvenes, Mr. Rajapaksa would be given the Prime Minister\u2019s seat, based on the gazette issued by the President appointing him as Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61372\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61372&amp;text=President%20Sirisena%20Will%20Re-convene%20Parliament%20on%20Nov%205th%20and%20not%20on%20Nov%2016th%20but%20Speaker%20Will%20Allocate%20Prime...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Meera Srinivasan In the face of growing calls to end week-long political impasse in the country, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has reconvened Parliament on November 5. \u201cParliament will reconvene on Monday,\u201d a top official at the President&#8217;s office told The Hindu on Thursday morning, confirming Mr. Sirisena\u2019s decision to partially revoke his order &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;President Sirisena Will Re-convene Parliament on Nov 5th and not on Nov 16th but Speaker Will Allocate Prime Minister Seat to Mahinda Rajapaksa Gazetted as PM.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61373,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61372\/revisions\/61373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}