{"id":125014,"date":"2022-05-05T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125014"},"modified":"2022-05-05T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T23:18:30","slug":"sri-lanka-deputy-speakers-re-election-doesnt-bode-well-for-no-confidence-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/05\/sri-lanka-deputy-speakers-re-election-doesnt-bode-well-for-no-confidence-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Deputy Speaker\u2019s re-election doesn\u2019t bode well for no-confidence motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, May 4 (ECONOMYNEXT): &nbsp;The near two thirds\u2019 vote in favour of Sri Lanka\u2019s government-backed deputy speaker candidate on Thursday (05) revealed the likelihood of the government easily defeating a proposed no confidence motion against it, opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an impassioned speech following the vote, Rasamanickam said that only 65 MPs were with the people of Sri Lanka who have been demanding the resignation of the government, while 148 MPs continue to stand for the ruling Rajapaksa family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s parliament re-elected MP Ranjith Siyambalapitiya as deputy speaker on Thursday with 148 out of 225 MPs voting in favour of the government-backed candidate. Rival candidate Imitiaz Bakeer Makar, who was nominated by the main opposition the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) received only 65 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re here to save the Rajapaksas. No matter what no confidence motion is brought against this government, these dramatists, crooks and liars will never vote against the Rajapaksas,\u201d said the MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The TNA MP also berated former prime minister and United National Party (UNP) MP Ranil Wickremesinghe for allegedly supporting the government during the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s clear that this is all theatre. We saw the former PM, who sits in the opposition, approaching each individual sitting here this morning asking them to support Mr Siyambalapitiya,\u201d the MP claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wickremesinghe has yet to respond to the allegation.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s government has been facing a wave of protests around the country with an increasingly furious public demanding its resignation. The main opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya has tabled a no confidence motion against the government, but it is unclear at present how much support it will be able to muster in favour of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 4 (ECONOMYNEXT): &nbsp;The near two thirds\u2019 vote in favour of Sri Lanka\u2019s government-backed deputy speaker candidate on Thursday (05) revealed the likelihood of the government easily defeating a proposed no confidence motion against it, opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam said. In an impassioned speech following the vote, Rasamanickam [&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-125014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125014","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=125014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}