{"id":42050,"date":"2015-03-06T06:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T13:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42050"},"modified":"2015-03-06T06:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T13:17:32","slug":"slfps-decision-to-form-a-national-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/06\/slfps-decision-to-form-a-national-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"SLFP\u00b4s decision to form a\u00a0National Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>P.A.Samaraweera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Yesterday, SLFP Central Committee member Faizer Mustapha said \u00a0that the Central\u00a0Committee had decided to set up a National Govt. He had added that the agreement by SLFP\u00a0 MP\u00b4s to support a National Govt is another progressive step taken under the leadership of President Sirisena. In connection with this, the SLFP Gen Secy Anura Yapa had said that\u00a0SLFP members are allowed to take up Ministerial posts in the National Govt.<\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena won the elections on the slogan,\u00a0 \u00b4wipe out nepotism and corruption\u00b4. But so far nothing much had been done on corruption except making statements to the media. The Govt is chasing after sprats while the whales are swimming freely. Having a National Govt is similar to one party system. \u00b4You scratch my back and I scratch yours\u00b4. Everyone in the Govt will be involved in bribery and corruption because there is no opposition to keep watch on them. In the past, even though the UNP did not form a strong opposition Ministers knew that they would be exposed in Parliament. In the so called National Govt there will be no one to complaint and corrupt Ministers can carry on regardless and also provide them with perks and privileges.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate given at the elections was to bring in specific constitutional reforms and not to go for a National Govt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.A.Samaraweera Yesterday, SLFP Central Committee member Faizer Mustapha said \u00a0that the Central\u00a0Committee had decided to set up a National Govt. He had added that the agreement by SLFP\u00a0 MP\u00b4s to support a National Govt is another progressive step taken under the leadership of President Sirisena. In connection with this, the SLFP Gen Secy Anura Yapa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42050","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=42050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}