{"id":61678,"date":"2018-11-14T04:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61678"},"modified":"2018-11-14T04:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:04:27","slug":"ranil-wickremesinghe-confirms-to-media-that-122-mps-have-informed-speaker-they-voted-in-favour-of-no-confidence-motion-against-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61678","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickremesinghe  Confirms to Media that 122 MP&#8217;s Have Informed Speaker They Voted In Favour of No Confidence Motion Against Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said voice vote was taken by the Speaker on the No Confidence Motion submitted in Parliament against the Government and that 122 MPs informed the Speaker that they voted in favour of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He told media that the NCM passed in Parliament with a majority could not be challenged and added that if anyone wanted to challenge the Speaker\u2019s decision, they could move a resolution challenging his decision tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they move a resolution challenging Speaker\u2019s decision, we can put it to vote and defeat it. We can even pass another resolution saying that Speaker\u2019s ruling is correct,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was incorrect to say Parliament broke up without a decision and added that it was a breach of Parliament Powers and Privileges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Parliament takes a decision, it should be recorded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton61678\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D61678&amp;text=Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20%20Confirms%20to%20Media%20that%20122%20MP%26%238217%3Bs%20Have%20Informed%20Speaker%20They%20Voted%20In%20Favour%20of%20No...%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>UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said voice vote was taken by the Speaker on the No Confidence Motion submitted in Parliament against the Government and that 122 MPs informed the Speaker that they voted in favour of it. He told media that the NCM passed in Parliament with a majority could not be challenged and added &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ranil Wickremesinghe  Confirms to Media that 122 MP&#8217;s Have Informed Speaker They Voted In Favour of No Confidence Motion Against Mahinda Rajapaksa&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\/61678"}],"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=61678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61681,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61678\/revisions\/61681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}