{"id":164617,"date":"2016-07-01T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=164617"},"modified":"2016-07-06T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:49:15","slug":"sirisena-wickremesinghe-deadlock-continues-no-central-bank-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sirisena-wickremesinghe-deadlock-continues-no-central-bank-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena, Wickremesinghe Deadlock Continues, No Central Bank Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadlock between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe continued over the appointment of a new Governor for Central Bank, with the Monetary Board stepping into act as the \u2018CEO\u2019 and running the day to day activities from today, until the appointment of a new Governor.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sirisena-wickremesinghe-deadlock-continues-no-central-bank-governor\/sirisena-ranil\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-164619\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-164619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sirisena-Ranil-.jpg\" alt=\"Sirisena-Ranil-\" width=\"639\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sirisena-Ranil-.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sirisena-Ranil--300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ranil and Sirisena | File photo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Colombo Telegraph learns that while Wickremesinghe campaigned for the appointment of his senior advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Charitha+Ratwatte&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Charitha Ratwatte<\/span><\/a> as Governor, an equally stubborn Maithripala refused to budge from his decision in appointing Deputy Governor Nandalal Weeresinghe to the post, resulting in a further escalation of an internal rift in the coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>The Government however attempted to quell the situation claiming that it was awaiting the return of Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake from overseas to make the official announcement, even though the final decision rests on the President and Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Finance Minister\u2019s consent is necessary, but that can even be obtained over the phone. The government is finding excuses in an effort to buy more time,\u201d a highly placed source said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Arjuna+Mahendran&amp;x=10&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Arjuna Mahendran<\/span><\/a>\u2019s term as Central Bank Governor ended at 6.00 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Wickremesinghe has denied protecting Mahendran, claiming that the controversial ex-Governor who is allegedly involved in several Treasury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bond+scam&amp;x=8&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bond scandals<\/span><\/a> has not being proved guilty in any inquiry so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not protecting him, but neither has he being proved guilty. However, if he is proven guilty, then action will be taken against him,\u201d Wickremesinghe reportedly told the ITN. (\u00a0<strong><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Munza+Mushtaq&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Munza Mushtaq<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 Colombo Telegraph<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related posts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/government-in-crisis-over-central-bank-governor\/\">Government In Crisis Over Central Bank Governor<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":164619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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