{"id":61529,"date":"2018-11-07T21:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61529"},"modified":"2018-11-07T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T01:45:29","slug":"speaker-karu-jayasuriya-will-allow-suspension-of-standing-orders-to-enable-vote-to-determine-whether-purported-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa-has-a-majority-when-parliament-re-convenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61529","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Karu Jayasuriya Will Allow Suspension of Standing Orders to  Enable Vote To Determine Whether Purported Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Has A Majority When Parliament Re-convenes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Parliamentary Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced Wednesday that he will allow a vote on the floor of the House to end a bitter power struggle and a constitutional that have crippled the country for nearly two weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jayasuriya\u2019 said he will go along with the wishes of 116 legislators who wanted him to take up the question of resolving the crippling political crisis.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s faction in parliament was opposed to any other business apart from reading out his proclamation reconvening parliament on November 14, Jayasuriya said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>However, a majority of MPs (116) wanted to suspend standing orders of the House and take a vote to decide if the purported Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa had a majority as claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker said he will go along with the majority of members who wanted to end the crisis by taking a vote soon after the president\u2019s proclamation was read out. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61529\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61529&amp;text=Speaker%20Karu%20Jayasuriya%20Will%20Allow%20Suspension%20of%20Standing%20Orders%20to%20%20Enable%20Vote%20To%20Determine%20Whether...%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>Parliamentary Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced Wednesday that he will allow a vote on the floor of the House to end a bitter power struggle and a constitutional that have crippled the country for nearly two weeks. Jayasuriya\u2019 said he will go along with the wishes of 116 legislators who wanted him to take up the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61529\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Speaker Karu Jayasuriya Will Allow Suspension of Standing Orders to  Enable Vote To Determine Whether Purported Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Has A Majority When Parliament Re-convenes.&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\/61529"}],"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=61529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61530,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61529\/revisions\/61530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}