{"id":62256,"date":"2018-12-18T00:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=62256"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T06:54:34","slug":"tussle-between-president-and-prime-minister-delays-cabinet-formation-with-wickremesinghe-resisting-sirisenas-demands-that-media-and-law-and-order-ministries-be-allocated-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=62256","title":{"rendered":"Tussle  Between President and Prime Minister  Delays  Cabinet Formation with  Wickremesinghe Resisting Sirisena&#8217;s Demands that Media and Law and Order Ministries  be Allocated to Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Sri Lanka&#8217;s reinstated Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe marked his first day back in office Monday with a hostile president resisting his nominations to a new cabinet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Party officials said Wickremesinghe was battling to form a government as Maithripala Sirisena insisted that he wanted to retain media and the law-and-order portfolios. Wickremesinghe&#8217;s United National Party (UNP) was against giving the key portfolios to Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President wants to keep law-and-order and media portfolios, but the prime minister disagrees,&#8221; a party official said adding that the tug-of-war led to the delay in forming a cabinet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sirisena reluctantly gave Wickremesinghe his old job back on Sunday, but made it clear that he will have a close tab on the administration signalling an uneasy cohabitation arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>A new cabinet was to be named Monday, but there were no signs of finalising a list of ministers 24 hours after Wickremesinghe was sworn.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the president&#8217;s office, but shortly after swearing-in Wickremesinghe, the president launched a scathing attack on him, accusing his previous administration of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still believe that I should not have made Ranil Wickremesinghe the prime minister, but I bow to the wishes of the majority in parliament,&#8221; Sirisena said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, I don&#8217;t know how far we will succeed in fulfilling the wishes of our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the UNP staged a major rally at Galle Face on Monday afternoon to mark the reinstatement of Wickremesinghe after the judiciary and the legislature ruled against the power grab of Sirisena-Rajapaksa combine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton62256\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D62256&amp;text=Tussle%20%20Between%20President%20and%20Prime%20Minister%20%20Delays%20%20Cabinet%20Formation%20with%20%20Wickremesinghe%20Resisting...%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>Sri Lanka&#8217;s reinstated Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe marked his first day back in office Monday with a hostile president resisting his nominations to a new cabinet. 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