{"id":40759,"date":"2015-01-10T12:23:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40759"},"modified":"2015-01-10T12:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T19:23:59","slug":"appointment-of-ranil-as-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/10\/appointment-of-ranil-as-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Ranil as Prime Minister ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>P.Ariyasinghe<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Presidential Elections have come and gone. People wanted a change. The new President won by 51.28 per cent of the votes and took oaths as President. And everyone is waiting for the implementation of the proposed 100 day Program and hopes that it brings good for the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> But there are concerns with regard to the appointment of Ranil as Prime Minister. He took oaths\u00a0 as Prime Minister. According to the Constitution the Prime Minister is appointed from the party which has a majority in Parliament. Ranil does not have a majority and he is short of at least by 30 members. If so, the question remains how Ranil was appointed Prime Minister ? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The election held was for the appointment of a President and not for a Prime Minister. A general election is to be held in July. So Ranil has no mandate from the people to be appointed as Prime Minister ! As it is there are two SLFP&#8217;s &#8211; Rajapakse SLFP (R)\u00a0 and Maithripala Sirisena SLFP (S). According to media reports Rajapakse will be back as a National list MP. Whatever it is, there appear to be Constitutional issues with regard to the appointment of a Prime Minister through the back door !<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.Ariyasinghe Presidential Elections have come and gone. People wanted a change. The new President won by 51.28 per cent of the votes and took oaths as President. And everyone is waiting for the implementation of the proposed 100 day Program and hopes that it brings good for the country. But there are concerns with regard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759","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=40759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}