{"id":202526,"date":"2019-06-11T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T11:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=202526"},"modified":"2019-06-11T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:41:43","slug":"desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Sirisena Continues Tantrum &#8211; Cancels Cabinet This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irked by the continuation of Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) session today despite his \u2018orders\u2019 to the Speaker and Cabinet to suspend hearings, a desperate Sirisena has abruptly cancelled the Cabinet meeting scheduled for this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-196302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3.jpg 795w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3-768x927.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>Last week when he summoned an emergency Cabinet meeting at his residence, he was adamant that PSC hearings are brought to a stop as he has been advised by his lackey Attorney General Dappula De Livera that the hearings impact several ongoing cases in the Supreme Court linked with easter bombings.<\/p>\n<p>Petty Sirisena also warned that if action is not taken to suspend the PSC, he would resort to boycotting government activities. Seems he followed up on the promise. No alternative date for the cabinet meeting had been informed yet.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the PSC is due to convene this afternoon at 1400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":196302,"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-202526","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>Desperate Sirisena Continues Tantrum - Cancels Cabinet This Morning - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Desperate Sirisena Continues Tantrum - Cancels Cabinet This Morning - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-11T11:56:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-11T12:41:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"795\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/\",\"name\":\"Desperate Sirisena Continues Tantrum - Cancels Cabinet This Morning - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-11T11:56:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-11T12:41:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Maithripala-Sirisena-3.jpg\",\"width\":795,\"height\":960},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/desperate-sirisena-continues-tantrum-cancels-cabinet-this-morning\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Desperate Sirisena Continues Tantrum &#8211; 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