{"id":74959,"date":"2018-02-19T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74959"},"modified":"2018-02-19T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:26:02","slug":"president-continues-to-keep-pm-without-removing-him-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/19\/president-continues-to-keep-pm-without-removing-him-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"President continues to keep PM without removing him: MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa today said it was none other than President Maithripala Sirisena who keeps Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his post without ousting him.<\/p>\n<p>The former president said this in response to a question asked by a journalist when he was leaving Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>When asked his opinion about President Sirisena seeking Attorney General\u2019s opinion on the legality of removing the Premier, Mr. Rajapaksa said Why seek AG\u2019s consultations? Shouldn\u2019t forget that the President is the Executive,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether it was President Sirisena who continues to protect the Premier, he said Definitely, who else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We said we will back the SLFP, if it appoints a Prime Minister among them. We won\u2019t back a PM who is a UNPer. It seems the current Prime Minister will continues to function based on the agreement between the UNP and the President,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he said the Joint Opposition has asked for the post of the Opposition Leader in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>We hope we will be given the place we deserve, the Opposition in Parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MR Voice cut 19 02 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ED-UrVWjAS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa today said it was none other than President Maithripala Sirisena who keeps Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his post without ousting him. The former president said this in response to a question asked by a journalist when he was leaving Parliament. When asked his opinion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74959","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=74959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}