{"id":83008,"date":"2018-11-10T00:21:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T06:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83008"},"modified":"2018-11-09T17:09:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T00:09:21","slug":"dissolution-of-parliament-by-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/10\/dissolution-of-parliament-by-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissolution of Parliament by the President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr.P.A.Samaraweera<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The President had done the best thing for the country by dissolving Parliament and going for the country. Arrogant Ranil, who scraped through in 2015 by getting a slight majority wrecked the country for 3 and a half\u00a0years. With his western touch up and with his circle of colleagues from the upper class of Colombo he has no sense of national mind or love for the country. So no wonder, he and President Sirisena who comes from a typical country background are poles apart. A good example of Ranil’s irresponsibility is the Central Bank\u00a0Bond scam by his friend Arjuna Mahendran. He made decisions as an autocrat. He completely ignored the fact that the President is elected by the country where as he is elected by an electorate and appointed as PM by the President.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ranil and his UNP acolytes must have got a shock of their life with the dissolution of Parliament, as they know that they are not prepared to face the people after what they had done during the last three and a half \u00a0years. At the interview with the Hindu Correspondent, he had said that he is willing to go back and work with the President. \u00a0This is because having lost nearly 24 elections he knows that he can never win an election. With his defeat at the coming elections he will be ousted as leader of the UNP and will be in the ‘cold storage’.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since he got the sack as PM he had been going after Foreign Envoys and pleading them to come to his rescue. As the President claimed he had used another\u00a0trump card and I am sure the whole country backs him except the UNP torch bearers. The Foreign Envoys, NGO’s etc who were advising Ranil and Speaker Karu Jayasuriya must now be in a dilemma. The President had very cleverly tackled the critical state of the country giving a shock to Ranil and his henchmen. Ranil’s backers were saying that the appointment of Mahinda Rajapaksa as PM was ‘unconstitutional’. Will\u00a0the so called legal experts say that the dissolution of Parliament as well is ‘unconstitutional’ ? Will Ranil hang around Temple Trees even after Parliament is dissolved? He may, but after January 5th he may have to pack up and go !<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr.P.A.Samaraweera The President had done the best thing for the country by dissolving Parliament and going for the country. Arrogant Ranil, who scraped through in 2015 by getting a slight majority wrecked the country for 3 and a half\u00a0years. With his western touch up and with his circle of colleagues from the upper class of […]<\/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-83008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008","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=83008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}