{"id":143640,"date":"2015-04-28T19:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T14:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=143640"},"modified":"2015-05-07T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T10:20:34","slug":"parliament-passes-19th-amendment-215-in-favour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/parliament-passes-19th-amendment-215-in-favour\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Parliament Passes 19th Amendment &#8211; 212 Votes In Favour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament today\u00a0adopted the 19th Amendment to the constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Maitre1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-133343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Maitre1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Maitre\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Maitre1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Maitre1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In the third reading of the 19th Amendment, two hundred and fifteen (212) Members of Parliament (MPs) voted for the amendment while only one, MP Sarath Weerasekara voted against it. MP Ajith Kumara abstained the voting while ten Members of Parliament were absent. Three MP&#8217;s who voted for the second reading of the amendment, including DM Jayaratne were absent.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 10.00PM<\/p>\n<p>Parliament today passed the second reading of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=19th+Amendment&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\">19th Amendment<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Two hundred and fifteen (215) Members of Parliament (MPs) voted for the amendment while only one, MP Sarath Weerasekara voted against it. MP Ajith Kumara abstained the voting while seven Members of Parliament, Basil Rajapaksa, Premalal Jayasekera, Janaka Priyantha Bandara, Dr. Jagath Balasuriya, Keheliya Rambukwella, Ven. Ellawela Medhananda and Susantha Punchinilame were absent.<\/p>\n<p>MP Sarath Weerasekara voted against the amendment while\u00a0MP Ajith Kumara abstained from voting. The government agreed to the SLFP\u00a0move to dilute the composition of the Constitutional Council. The SLFP\u00a0proposed to include 7MPs to the constitutional council with 3 non MPs. The Constitutional Council as proposed by the 19th Amendment would be a representative body reflecting the views of diverse groups in Parliament and would be apolitical in so far as the seven non ex-officio persons who are not politicians and are distinguished in public or professional life.<\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s address to the Parliament during second reading of the 19th Amendment to the constitution;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZpP-xWIvZc\" width=\"634\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":133343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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