{"id":77096,"date":"2022-04-20T01:02:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77096"},"modified":"2022-04-20T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:09:54","slug":"speaker-mahinda-yapa-abeywardena-has-said-that-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-has-conveyed-to-the-speaker-of-parliament-his-willingness-to-step-down-if-all-party-leaders-make-a-unanimous-call-for-his-re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77096","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Has Said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has conveyed  his willingness to step down if all party leaders make a unanimous call for his resignation States Leader of the Opposition  Sajith Premadasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has conveyed to the Speaker of Parliament his willingness to step down if all party leaders make a unanimous call for his resignation, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Premadasa told parliament on Wednesday (20) that Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena had made this pronouncement at a party leaders\u2019 meeting earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said at the party leaders that all party leaders of his house go and ask him to step down, he is ready for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re ready to do that. You give us the opportunity. All of us in the opposition are ready to unanimously make that statement,\u201d said Premadasa.<\/p>\n<p>A unanimous call from party leaders would have to include the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), led by President Rajapaksa\u2019s older brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Political analysts say it is unlikely that the SLPP will back such a call. A newly appointed cabinet by Rajapaksa consists 19 SLPP members not counting the president and the PM.<\/p>\n<p>Calls for President Rajapaksa\u2019s resignation have been growing over the past few weeks over his government\u2019s mishandling of Sri Lanka\u2019s worsening economic crisis which has now precipitated a political crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Protests islandwide have intensified since Tuesday (19) following a fuel price hike, culminating in a killing of a civilian protestor allegedly by police.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:Economy Next<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton77096\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D77096&amp;text=Speaker%20Mahinda%20Yapa%20Abeywardena%20Has%20Said%20that%20President%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20has%20conveyed%20%20his%20willingness%20to...%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 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has conveyed to the Speaker of Parliament his willingness to step down if all party leaders make a unanimous call for his resignation, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said. Premadasa told parliament on Wednesday (20) that Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena had made this pronouncement at a party leaders\u2019 meeting earlier that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=77096\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Has Said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has conveyed  his willingness to step down if all party leaders make a unanimous call for his resignation States Leader of the Opposition  Sajith Premadasa&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\/77096"}],"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=77096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77098,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77096\/revisions\/77098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}