{"id":196275,"date":"2018-11-25T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=196275"},"modified":"2018-11-25T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T16:50:14","slug":"sirisena-makes-another-false-promise-pledges-to-appoint-new-pm-if-parliament-follows-standing-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sirisena-makes-another-false-promise-pledges-to-appoint-new-pm-if-parliament-follows-standing-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena Makes Another False Promise: Pledges To Appoint New PM If Parliament Follows Standing Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Maithripala+Sirisena\">Maithripala Sirisena<\/a>, who reneged on his promises on the no-confidence motion against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a> multiple times, now says he is ready to appoint a new Prime Minister if the legislature follows Standing Orders.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_155516\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Maitre1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155516\" class=\"wp-image-155516 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Maitre1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Maitre1.jpg 328w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Maitre1-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Maitre1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sirisena<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sirisena, addressing party leaders on a previous occasion, said he would accept the no-confidence motion against Rajapaksa if Parliament passed it minus the first clause. When the Legislature passed the NCM against Rajapaksa for the second time as requested by Sirisena, the latter refused to fulfil his promise.,<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Sunday Times<\/em> yesterday, Sirisena had stated that he would appoint a new Prime Minister \u201cif Parliament follows Standing Orders and shows a majority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Mahinda Rajapaksa has the majority in Parliament, he can continue with the government without any obstacle. If it is proved that Mr Rajapaksa does not have a majority, I believe he will take a decision,\u201d he told the <em>Sunday Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no possibility of re-appointing Mr Wickremesinghe. I will stick to that principle,\u201d he said. The newspaper also reports that Sirisena, at a UPFA meeting at the Presidential Secretariat on Friday, has requested Mahinda Rajapaksa to continue in office, despite two no-confidence motions being passed against him in Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":138652,"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-196275","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sirisena Makes Another False Promise: Pledges To Appoint New PM If Parliament Follows Standing Orders - 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