{"id":109298,"date":"2020-12-03T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109298"},"modified":"2020-12-03T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T23:00:47","slug":"parliamentary-council-ratifies-presidents-nominees-for-independent-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/03\/parliamentary-council-ratifies-presidents-nominees-for-independent-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Council ratifies President\u2019s nominees for independent commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Parliamentary Council has approved the nominations presented by the President for five independent commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaired by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, the Parliamentary Council was convened at the Parliament this evening (03).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dc2\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc3\u0db7\u0dcf 4\u0d9a\u0da7 \u0da2\u0db1\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0dba\u0ddd\u0da2\u0db1\u0dcf \u0d9a\u0dc5 \u0db1\u0db8\u0dca \u0d85\u0db1\u0dd4\u0db8\u0dad \u0dc0\u0dda\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7NsqcCoOdfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The President\u2019s nominees for the Election Commission, Public Services Commission, National Police Commission, Finance Commission and Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption (CIABOC) were thereby approved by the Parliamentary Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of its representatives told Ada Derana that recommendations for nominees for the Human Rights Commission and the Delimitation Commission are expected to be submitted in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the new chairpersons for five independent commissions, approved by the Parliamentary Council are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Former Election Commission Director (Legal) Attorney-at-Law Nimal G. Punchihewa \u2013 Election Commission<br>\u2022 Retired Supreme Court Judge Jagath Balapatabendi \u2013 Public Services Commission<br>\u2022 Former IGP Chandra Fernando \u2013 National Police Commission<br>\u2022 Retired Supreme Court Judge Eva Wanasundera \u2013 Bribery Commission<br>\u2022 Former Finance Ministry Secretary Sumith Abeysinghe \u2013 Finance Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Parliamentary Council has approved the nominations presented by the President for five independent commissions. Chaired by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, the Parliamentary Council was convened at the Parliament this evening (03). The President\u2019s nominees for the Election Commission, Public Services Commission, National Police Commission, Finance Commission and Commission to Investigate Allegations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}