{"id":124855,"date":"2022-04-30T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124855"},"modified":"2022-04-30T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T22:14:30","slug":"premier-mahinda-ready-to-bow-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/30\/premier-mahinda-ready-to-bow-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Mahinda ready to bow out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday told&nbsp;<em>The Island<\/em>&nbsp;that he was ready to accept any decision taken by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa about the post of Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the President decides to replace me with another person, I am ready to accept that. We must respect and accept the decisions taken by the President,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, former President and head of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Maithripala Sirisena told journalists in Colombo that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had agreed to form an interim government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President agreed to form an interim government if all stakeholders were agreeable,\u201d the former President said, adding that the interim government would be the first step towards holding elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not care about the leadership of the interim government. We need to do something to solve the present crisis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sirisena said letters inviting political parties to join the interim government would be sent to the leaders of all political parties represented in Parliament in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President consented to form an Interim Cabinet of Ministers led by a new Prime Minister,\u201d Sirisena said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Interim Cabinet would be limited to 15 or 20 Ministers. Sirisena said that the President agreed to establish a National Council that would decide on the Prime Minister, Cabinet of Ministers, Inspector General of Police, Attorney General, and even the Ministry Secretaries. This is an SLFP proposal\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy Island Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday told&nbsp;The Island&nbsp;that he was ready to accept any decision taken by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa about the post of Prime Minister. If the President decides to replace me with another person, I am ready to accept that. We must respect and accept the decisions taken by [&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-124855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124855","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=124855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}