{"id":44600,"date":"2015-06-10T10:12:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T17:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44600"},"modified":"2015-06-10T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T17:12:46","slug":"america-expresses-distress-over-ranils-undemocratic-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/06\/10\/america-expresses-distress-over-ranils-undemocratic-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"America Expresses Distress over Ranil\u2019s Undemocratic Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adalakderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A \u2018No Confidence Motion\u2019 with the most number of signatures in the history of Sri Lanka Parliament has been presented against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to the distress and dissapointment of the US government, it said recently.<\/p>\n<p>If this no confedence motion is passed in parliament, the positive changes that have taken place in the country since the regime change in January, will come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Richard E. Hoagland, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the US State Department, said that, it is quite disgruntling and troubling to know that the Prime Minister of the government they (US) helped to be brought in, has violated basic democratic norms and acted in an undemocratic manner within such a short time of his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Establishing of the FCID to hunt down his political opponents and the cover-up of the controversial Central Bank bond issue are grave and undemocratic situations.\u00a0 The Opposition has sufficient proof against the PM, hence a no confidence motion against him would bring disrepute to him, said Hoagland.<\/p>\n<p>If the no confedence motion is passed in parliament with a majority vote (which it most likely will be), the US considers the defeat of Wickremesinghe, a personal blow to their (US) efforts and for the work done on behalf of Sri Lanka by them, said the Assistant Secy.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/adalakderana.com\/english\/america-expresses-distress-over-ranils-undemocratic-conduct\/\">http:\/\/adalakderana.com\/english\/america-expresses-distress-over-ranils-undemocratic-conduct\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adalakderana A \u2018No Confidence Motion\u2019 with the most number of signatures in the history of Sri Lanka Parliament has been presented against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to the distress and dissapointment of the US government, it said recently. If this no confedence motion is passed in parliament, the positive changes that have taken place in [&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-44600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44600","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=44600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}