UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe will take oaths as the Prime Minister on Sunday at 10 AM, the UNP confirmed.
President Maithripala Sirisena had a telephone conversation with Wickremesinghe, a short while ago, on the swearing-in event.
The ministers of the new Cabinet will take oaths on Monday, UNP sources added.
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will make a special statement tomorrow explaining reasons for his decision to step down from the fake ‘premiership.’
Critical thinking / December 14, 2018
Good ..
What he must learn a lesson from the past ..
He is nothing but crafty people .
For me he ; m&s and Mahinda all are same ..
They do not help poor .
They do not care about this nation..
They only joly ride on people .
They use this post cor their good .
You can not reach old dog a new trick..
He had 3/5 years to punish all ..
But he did not do that ..
Next let us teach them all a lesson vote JVP.
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Native Vedda / December 14, 2018
Ranil
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Alright, will you now seriously consider throwing all those political crooks, corrupt functionaries, members of police, war criminals, murderers, criminals, … in prison …………… recover all those crooked investments in overseas and local banks, audit all state expenses from 2005 to date, ………………….. assets owning politicians, ……… ?
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Simon De Silva / December 15, 2018
Native,
Our Mr Self Proclaimed DJ will have to commit sucide next days
DJ thought RW will sink even deeper.
See, by today, Respectable Ranil Wickramasinghe and his patience won at the end of the day. He thought he is right and he was alert to all the law and order processes. And today, Sirisena has to behave like a dog not being able to open his mouth again Ranil et al.
I am so happy hearing this news. I always believed, that the truths will succeed.
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Native Vedda / December 15, 2018
Simon De Silva
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I can understand why you are angry with the public racist however I am worried more about his mango friend Wimal Windbag Weerawansa who wanted the people (rent a mob) to evict Ranil from his official residence as Prime Minister.
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Why doesn’t the media round him up and strip him off of his political vanity?
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Anonymous / December 14, 2018
So by default President Maithripala Sirisenas unconstitutional removal is getting legitimacy by this stupid move by Ranil Wickremesinghe and his UNP! So he can now kick Ranil out the next day from reappointment? Who are they trying to fool? Back to collusion I see!?
Another “Game of Shape “ is it!?
Be smart don’t be fooled
Are they back at trying to protect the Rajapaksas Criminal Network from prosecution!?
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Amarasiri / December 15, 2018
Prime Minister Ranil W,
Congratulations, and thank you for fighting to preserve the constitution, but why do you need to take an oath again? You never resigned. Is it because of the 7 NCM against the Fake PM?
Mahinda resigned from the Fake PM Post, because he took the oath, in the middle of the night.
Will Sirisena resign as as well, or will he eat crow? There is supposed to be paddy field waiting for him at Polannaruwa, (to be set on fire)
Sri Lanka, a Land Like No Other! May the Land be Flooded with tourists again!
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Uthungan / December 15, 2018
The dismissal of the PM was illegal and so is the dissolution of Parliament was unconstitutional; the gazette notifications are also invalid. As such every thing has become restored back to the original before Oct. 26th 2018 position by the SC.
As such the necessity to re- take Oath of Office as PM is also redundant especially if it has to be administered by MaRu Sira.
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M. Basnayake / December 14, 2018
Years from now, I will tell my grandchildren the terrors of the #couplk. I also hope that I will be able to tell them that ranil wickremesinghe was able to set the foundation to make this beautiful but corrupt nation a prosperous one.
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Maharage, / December 14, 2018
Basnayake,
Ranil will set the foundation for a prosperous nation only if he gets rid of the corrupted cohorts like Ravi Karunanayake, Rajitha etc. and pave way for young leadership with foresight, honesty, and good education.
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Vanguard / December 14, 2018
“Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will make a special statement tomorrow explaining reasons for his decision to step down from the fake ‘premiership.’”
No, he will explain his reasons for stepping down from the post of Prime Minister. Nothing fake about that. Meanwhile, Ranil is taking oaths on Monday as what? Why does he have to take oaths twice?
Proud of our politicians for refusing to take bribes and cross over.
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janaka / December 14, 2018
‘Proud of our politicians for refusing to take bribes and cross over.’
Those proud of politicians asked for 500 million to crossover. The Fake Cabinet did not have that kind of money to buy the lot.
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Native Vedda / December 14, 2018
Vanguard
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“No, he will explain his reasons for stepping down from the post of Prime Minister. Nothing fake about that.”
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Why are so desperate to carry his b***s?
He is crook who has learned the lessons the hard way.
Let him gracefully retire. It is people like you who caused this greedy power hungry crook’s downfall.
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Ego pricked, heart broken, humiliated by Court of Law, abandoned by most of his b***s carriers, lost dignity, ……………… a sad man all because he loved excessive power, greed, …………
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Amarasiri / December 15, 2018
Native Vedda,
There is a Wall Street saying:
Bulls make money
Bears make money
Pigs get slaughtered Mahinda wanted to be pig, and got slaughtered by the same slaughterer who stabbed him in the back the first time.
Some of these greedy pigs, never learn.
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Plato. / December 14, 2018
CHEERS.
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Vanguard / December 14, 2018
And the deal is 2/3 and an election in January? Is that the deal?
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Gamini / December 14, 2018
A statement from MR is redundant, unnecessary and superfluous. Obviously he will try to fool the People again with his diatribes. That is his style. There was a NCM passed against him in Parliament. Automatically he ceased to be PM from that date although he (and MS) did not follow this Democratic Principle. So there is no need to resign.
GROBR!
If you have any desire to lead the Country again (God forbid!), come through the front door and please do not try this type of coup! It is distasteful, obnoxious, abhorrent and repugnant for ALL people who love and embrace Democracy and it leaves a sour taste. We are aware you and your ilk are more inclined towards dictatorship, authoritarianism and totalitarianism. That’s why 6.2 m voters chased you away.
Please retire gracefully as you have already had your chances and you are pass the ‘use by date’.
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PARAGON / December 14, 2018
EVERY BODY CALLED YOU AS MR.BEAN IN THE PAST.SINCE OF LATE YOU HAVE PROVED OTHER WISE.YOU MUST PROVE THAT YOU ARE A STORING LEADER IN COMING DAYS.plese do not under estimate MAHINDAS cunning ways.he might come to you with his old tricks to delay or side line the various COURT CASES PENDING AGAINST HE AND FAMILY.already you became unpopular because in the past your government acted very slowly to bring justice to LASANTHA,THUDEEN,EHALINAGODA,AND THE ELEVEN YOUTHS FAMILY.always keep in mind your fight with MAHINDA AND COMPANY IS STILL NOT OVER.YOU CAN NOT EXPECT TAMILS AND MUSLIMS TO SUPPORT YOU FOR LIFE TIME .YOU AS PROMISED AT LEAST GIVE YOUR ATTENTION TO SOLVE AT LEAST 50%TAMILS PROBLEM IN NEXT two and a half years.PLEASE REMEMBER THAT TNA SAMPANTHAR AND SUMANTHIRAN CAN NOT GO TO TAMILS EMPTY HANDED IN THE COMING ELECTIONS.GOOD LUCK TO YOU.
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Analyst / December 14, 2018
UNP you have the supreme power of the country, steer clear from bogeymen / women , make NO mistakes , like in the wake of 2015 election victory, car permits galore! Pay increase and promotions and promotions.
We the silent people watched in ” Awe” thinking what?? Xmas came early for the vultures and you the leader Ranil.!!
That was uncalled for , which is still in motion in front of my eyes thinking what was going on??
Whose money was shared and presented among the government MPs and Ministers.
Now work with a A simple small cabinet , order them to be Thrifty.
Any Foreign Aid should be used for the purpose it was intended , NO SELF INDULGENCE.
TIME TO BUILD OUR COUNTRY.ENOUGH OF BICKERING WITH MAD MEN IN POLITICS.
God please don’t repeat that CRAP.
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Nic / December 14, 2018
What an unwanted fiasco this lunatic MS and power and money greedy MR – bribe taker put this nation through. Sri Lankans, let us not forget these and their stooges who have vacated their God given brains at the next elections.
This a’hole MS had eaten his words and now he is forced to eat his own excreta and appoint RW as PM! What a shameless swine.
Any how this does and should not pave way for RK the bribe taking, forgetful moron to be brought back to cabinet though he forced himself to the front in every photo op that these few weeks provided..
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Umberto / December 14, 2018
He may take oath as prime minister and form a government, what then. Is it going to be nay different to the last three and a half years of yahapalnya governing? I doubt very much. Will there be any positive action to eradicate corruption in the country ? NO WAY. It will remain the same, no one will be prosecuted for all the atrocities, the ministers and the parliamentarians will draw their salaries and have their perks, the ordinary citizen will keep on suffering. THIS IS SRILANKA for you.
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Janaka from Matara / December 14, 2018
Umberto: What a strange argument. Just imagine new government has Sarath Fonseka running ministry of Law and Order. The man who stopped that is not coming out of the closet because he just realized he does not have any clothes on himself.
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Umberto / December 15, 2018
Janaka from Matara
It doesn’t matter who runs the ministry of Law and Order. THe top man will be spinelesss wickramasinghe, who will not anyone lay a hand on the rajapakshas. so there you are.
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Ruwan / December 14, 2018
Please someone give a bottle of poison or a rope to Gamarala so that he can commit suicide:-) What a drama for nearly two months and what a ‘koombiya’ RW is (and of course what a fool Gamarala is):-)
Gamarala tried to end RW’s political career but now lets see whose career will come to an end:-) Pretty much… during this drama, Gamarala ruined his political career, ruined his family’s ambitions and humiliated whole Rajapaksa family. What a sad ending and humiliation to Gamarala and Rajapaksas’.
Hope….. Gamarala would be sent to prison so that he can spend his retirement in style for the damage he did to the country:-)
Glad that the democracy prevailed.
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Saluting our Judiciary / December 14, 2018
Nothing changes as long as the constitution remains same.
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There is nothing to celebrate for the people ,especially the common man ,,
until there is a complete people power Parliament, the common man will never get his fair share .
But Sri Lanka and The Citizens can he proud and must celebrate our Judiciary and honor them , they
deserves the respect which they have rightfully earned .
The world is going to look at us with respect from now on, in fact they already have started to.
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Ayathuray Rajasingam / December 14, 2018
Ranil Congraulations. People are expecting a Cabinet of consisting of 15 to 18 Ministers. Ministers should be qualified in some aspect. There can be 25 Deputy Ministers. This is what the people and the International Community are expecting. People want some Ministers of the calibre of late Athulathmudali, Ronnie de Mel, etc who can parch the country towards prosperity. Ministers should have thorough knowledge of their respective portfolio. Mangala Samaraweera, D.M.Swaminathan, etc, are people of good standing and command the respect of the people. What is vital is good governance.
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Ajay / December 14, 2018
Does this mean the lunatic fool Sira is packing off to Polonnaruwa? He swore many times that he won’t remain President for even 5 minutes if he had to reappoint Ranil as PM.
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Naman / December 14, 2018
Thanks a lot to our Judiciary for making the RIGHT decisions.
It’s time for Judiciary to get the criminal cases that has been piled up against Rajapaksa clan taken up ASAP
The Innocents that are living as well as those murdered are waiting for justice for ages
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chiv / December 14, 2018
OMG that mean MS will leave politics for good and return back to his village to plough fields. Ajay I am thinking in the same lines as you. Then what will poor Chathu do ???will she be writing another book on reincarnation of thatha ???? What ever happens I can see one or more of MS off springs making into the dirty game called politics, taking the mantle from Thatha.
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RATNAM / December 14, 2018
We are all still sceptical! I will not believe this until I see the actual swearing in . Man Friday may have a hidden agenda.
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Burt / December 14, 2018
Why is he going to take oath again? As the SC found that the dissolution against the word and spirit of the constitution the act becomes null and void. There the make believe PM appointed was not recognized by the law of the land.
So Ranil never lost that office he just had a squatter occupying the position and the court kicked him out.
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Burt / December 14, 2018
Shouldn’t this caption read: “SIRISENA EATS CROW”
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Rbh / December 14, 2018
Simple constitution statement the president and MR group cannot understand one month is wasted is the president is capable to be as a president he cannot understand the world has advised they all know the weakness he some one is injecting toxic to him and he wants Ranil to be fall he still don’t know he is digging
his own grave he already had told if Ranil become Prime Minister he will not stay even for 5 min
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Real Revolutionist / December 14, 2018
He doesn’t deserve it.
Other UNP MPs are wrong.
They’ll have to pay the penalty for that.
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Gamini / December 14, 2018
Now time to come out All Monks and So called Maha Sangha in support of mArA kalliya , where were they all these days hiding: 45 days heeniya government, Sadu sadu saaaa!!!
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Analyst / December 15, 2018
There will be Danas and more Mega Danas for the Sagha , Malwattes, Pirivenas, with chanting and curse the UNPers.
Mega looted state money will be ready to throw at yellow robes for Spiritual ?? What favours?? I mean Spiritualistic worshipping to curse UNP and all the baddies from Sillisena/ Jarapakse List.
Revenge time now with looted wealth folks , wait for it for the next round of boxing in the ring.
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whywhy / December 14, 2018
Lying to the people is Addressing the Nation ? And by a man of a gang who was
defeated twice by N C M in parliament and four times in courts within 48 days ?
They won’t stop taking people for donkeys ! All respectable citizens must switch
off their TVs when he comes on air ! In the history of our country , no one has
ever harassed the people like he did by unlawfully capturing country’s supreme
institutes through a coup ! Nobody should ever imagine he has anything
meaningful like apologizing to the people ! It is nothing but FACE SAVING tactics
after a filthy failed drama .
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Lankan / December 14, 2018
I would say Mr.Sirisena have done the tremendous job he made to show us of true personality of the all politicians and what do they up-to,and what do they stand for,he unite the Sinhalese Muslim’s Thamils for solidarity,he put the judiciary a clean hand,without him it wouldn’t have happened,we praise for the two police men sacrificed their lives to show us how far these power hunger can lead.
Press office run out of 19 amendment prints,even though it was passed years but now only ordinary analysing it ,how wonderful is that,
It was in the grip but now people are firm and looking forward to bring that beautiful to alive.
Now we all proud of our country
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Rajash / December 14, 2018
Ranil – camera – action – take2….
My3 and Mahinda caught you napping.
this time you have to deliver ….
The TNA openly supported you against My3 and Mahinda…..despite …there was no race riots or burning of Tamil/Muslim by the Sinhala extremist elements
….the mood of the country is changed..
you need to capitalise on this and bring the Rajapakse’s to account for all the murders, mass killing , corruption etc
Send the Rajapakse’s to the galores..lock stock and barrel.
ensure that not a single Rajapakse clan is in politics.
This is your last and one and only chance…
you may have to sacrifice some of your corrupt UNPers too to achieve this
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Piyadasa Yalagala / December 14, 2018
The man who committed crime of Central Bank Bonds scam of Ranil Wicks has become Primer of
Sri lanka. again ?
Where is truth of this land ???? Lanka leads to unresolved catastrophes of millions of People are suffering an Island?
RW of UNP are looted billions of Bond of Tax payers money of poor people of this nation support from JVP and TNA outfits.
What a country of that Ranil Wicks has become chief of that puppet regime of USA, UK, EU and Indian lackeys by that regime installed by another political-Judicial coup .
This new type of Judicial Coup that pave way that change for puppet regime change for UNP’s in power of center in 2018 December 15 ?
The Dissolution of corrupted Parliament by President an opposed by SC is well establish political coup of New Regime change ?
We are no longer Independent nation since 1948 of even after 70 years that we are a colony of USA UK and Indian powers. RW , chief of junta has change to puppet of USA+ UK+ Indian.All elections are Parliament and Presidential will be postpone indefinitely. Right to vote will be closed for many years to come?
This is not that ours faith , it was forcefully an imposed to us by UNP of RW ,CBK ,JVP , TNA and Muslim Congress of political outfits .
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JD / December 14, 2018
Maithripala sirisena represents the Peoples’ sovereignity. So, the Supreme court says the others are superior to Peopls power. Some say, These judges had been used to get money from every source including the west.
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Chauvinist / December 15, 2018
Dear prime minister
Please abolish this draconian constitution of JR as you have promised before last presidential election. Now you have suffered yourself ,you have a good reason to turn it around. If you continue to turn a blind eye and fail to bring perpetrators of crimes to justice, people with come back with a vengence at the next election! This is only a temporary reprieve and there is no honeymoon period.
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Fathima / December 15, 2018
Probably the JVP’s “impeachment” worked? Anyway, for a moment I was curious if MS will this time stick to his word “Will never give PM post to RW”
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Mohamed / December 15, 2018
So it was just a hubby-wifey fight that country has to lose a lot?
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