{"id":43465,"date":"2015-04-28T22:44:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43465"},"modified":"2015-04-28T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:46:52","slug":"government-gives-green-light-to-slfp-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/28\/government-gives-green-light-to-slfp-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Government gives green light to SLFP proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe says they agreed with the opposition proposal to include seven Parliamentarians to the Constitutional council with three non-MPs.<\/p>\n<p>The second reading of the 19th Amendment to Constitution was passed in Parliament with a majority of 214 votes with 215 members voting for and a single vote against, on Tuesday (28) evening.<\/p>\n<p>With government ranks and opposition members engaged in a tug-o-war on amendments proposed to the 19th Amendment Bill, a last minute meeting has been called by President Maithripala Sirisena with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at Parliament earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was convened soon after the SLFP group meeting chaired by President Sirisena, where party members have expressed their reservations over voting in favour of the 19th Amendment as their amendments proposed were not incorporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe says they agreed with the opposition proposal to include seven Parliamentarians to the Constitutional council with three non-MPs. The second reading of the 19th Amendment to Constitution was passed in Parliament with a majority of 214 votes with 215 members voting for and a single vote against, on Tuesday (28) [&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-43465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43465","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=43465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}