{"id":195831,"date":"2018-11-16T23:43:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=195831"},"modified":"2018-11-17T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T16:38:30","slug":"sirisena-reneges-on-his-promises-again-refuses-to-accept-second-ncm-against-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sirisena-reneges-on-his-promises-again-refuses-to-accept-second-ncm-against-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena Reneges On His Promises Again: Refuses To Accept Second NCM Against Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sirisena-wants-first-clause-removed-from-ncm-requests-party-leaders-to-go-for-a-vote-by-name\/\">Maithripala Sirisena has reneged on his promises once again<\/a>, as he has refused to accept the legality of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-confidence-motion-against-mr-passed-again-amid-severe-interruptions\/\">the second no-confidence motion<\/a> adopted against Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_165002\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Maithripala-Sirisena-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165002\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Maithripala-Sirisena--300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Maithripala-Sirisena--300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Maithripala-Sirisena-.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sirisena<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At a meeting with Parliamentarians of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) this evening, at the Presidential Secretariat, Sirisena had said he could not accept the second no-confidence motion as his advice had not been followed.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena, at a meeting with party leaders, last evening, said he could accept the no-confidence motion minus the first clause. He requested party leaders to pass an &#8216;amended &#8216; no-confidence motion and promises that he had no issue about accepting the will of the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Upon Sirisena&#8217;s promise, the party leaders today passed an amended no-confidence motion without the first clause which challenged the gazette notifications issued by the President. Hours after the no-confidence motion was adopted, Sirisena had said he was not in a position to accept him, making a 180 degree turn.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena had also told the SLPP group that he would not appoint UNP Leader Ranil Wickemesinghe as the Prime Minister again, under any circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, addressing a press conference earlier today, JVP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath said Sirisena&#8217;s brain should be checked if he refused to accept the second no-confidence motion.<\/p>\n<p>As the JVP Parliamentarian predicted, Sirisena has now reneged on his promises, bringing the political crisis back to square one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":165002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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