{"id":41362,"date":"2015-02-09T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T02:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41362"},"modified":"2015-02-09T06:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T13:48:32","slug":"ranils-huffing-and-puffing-will-not-frighten-the-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/02\/09\/ranils-huffing-and-puffing-will-not-frighten-the-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Ranil\u2019s huffing and puffing will not frighten the opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yahapalanaya News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In reply to Prime Minister\u2019s threat that Parliament would be dissolved straightaway if the government failed to defeat the no-confidence, Chief Opposition Whip John Seneviratne said only the executive president had the power to dissolve parliament, and therefore Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s threat was meaningless and just empty hot air.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wickremesinghe had said at a function at UNP headquarters Sirikotha that parliament would be dissolved if the government failed to defeat the no-confidence motion against Public Order, Disaster Management and Christian Affairs Minister John Amaratunga<br \/>\nResponding to these remarks, Mr. Seneviratne said the prime minister had no authority to dissolve Parliament in such an event.<\/p>\n<p>Only the executive president can do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Seneviratne said it was a decision of the SLFP parliamentary group to bring theno-confidence motion against Public Order, Disaster Management and Christian Affairs Minister John Amaratunga and had nothing to do with the executive president.<\/p>\n<p>We have collected the signatures of 114 MPs for this motion. There are also a few of our members currently abroad. With their support, we can easily carry this motion,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahapalanaya News In reply to Prime Minister\u2019s threat that Parliament would be dissolved straightaway if the government failed to defeat the no-confidence, Chief Opposition Whip John Seneviratne said only the executive president had the power to dissolve parliament, and therefore Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s threat was meaningless and just empty hot air. Mr. Wickremesinghe had [&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-41362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41362","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=41362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}