{"id":83055,"date":"2018-11-10T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T23:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83055"},"modified":"2018-11-10T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T23:58:39","slug":"international-community-please-keep-away-ex-pm-was-neither-sacked-nor-dismissed-he-became-redundant-when-cabinet-ceased-to-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/10\/international-community-please-keep-away-ex-pm-was-neither-sacked-nor-dismissed-he-became-redundant-when-cabinet-ceased-to-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"International Community please keep away. Ex PM was neither sacked nor dismissed, he became redundant when\u00a0 Cabinet ceased to exist."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

What a furore there is amoung UNP supporters in Sri Lanka, and Foreign Governments \u00a0supporting the puppet regime of Ranil Wickramasinghe ,\u00a0 since a number of members from his Cabinet of Ministers refused\u00a0 to work for him any more in a National Government, \u00a0resulting in\u00a0 the Cabinet ceasing to exist?<\/p>\n

That was not by all means the end of the world, \u00a0nor the end of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

But what we the Sri Lankans do not understand is why the so called \u00a0International Community- the USA, Norway, Switzerland , France, Germany, Italy ,Netherlands, Roumania and UK are interfering\u00a0 demanding the President to show a majority in Parliament. That is not their business.<\/p>\n

They say that it would damage Sri Lanka\u2019s international reputation\u00a0 and deter investors. But can these countries say how they helped Sri Lanka during the past three years and how many investors came from\u00a0 amoung the countries of the West ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, \u00a0they of the International Community are always there to create trouble in developing countries , cast barriers, impose trade embargoes, stop GPS and purchase of fish, even kill political leaders as they did those day when the CIA was active, \u00a0but they are never there to help by making\u00a0 investments\u00a0 or providing technology.<\/p>\n

It is surprising that Australia and Canada too jump into the band wagon to warn Sri Lanka of serious\u00a0 consequences. But how about the neglected first Citizens of Canada and Maories of Australia. Why don\u2019t they look after them instead of worrying about Sri Lanka ?<\/p>\n

As for Canada tagging behind\u00a0 its MP for Scarborough-RougePark which is far away from Sri Lanka and Thanigasalam MPP who is both physically and mentally far away from the Tamils of Sri Lanka, it is better that Thanigasalam is told that the Tamils in Sri Lanka\u00a0 are left alone without mixing them up with the Canadian Tamils. Because Tamils here will not be\u00a0 Tamils without Sri Lanka . Those Tamils \u00a0too Sri Lanka can manage without being interfered by far away Canada and still far away Thanigasalam and Scarborough.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankans are well educated; they have a good Armed Force, they are\u00a0 growing up in a very peaceful culture,\u00a0 and they are a people of a generous heart. Sri Lankans-that include the Tamils have nothing to learn from Scarborough, Ontario or Canada least of all from Thanigasalam MP, nor from France, Germany, Italy, US, Roumania , Netherlands, Switzerland and all the rest as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n

The so called International Community\u00a0 are only interferers who do not want to help poor countries \u00a0develop and progress. Their World Bank and IMF give \u00a0loans\u00a0 to condition our development\u00a0 they \u00a0want it to be, and put us into their net of debt , to make us \u00a0remain poor, \u00a0and be\u00a0 of \u00a0political and strategic importance to the International Community.<\/p>\n

Therefore, International community if you can help us develop our country\u00a0 you are welcome , but if you come to tell us what we should do and not do you are not welcome. In that case please keep away, as we both have nothing to gain or nothing to loose by being with one\u00a0 another\u00a0 in poverty or prosperity.. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Now the International Community now lets turn to your problem about your interfering into Sri Lanka to defend\u00a0 your puppet Ranil Wickramasinghe you raised into being the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. You are now \u00a0demanding the Parliament of Sri Lanka to have the sittings on the 14th<\/sup> November to show a majority for the newly sworn in most popular Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, firstly please take note that it is not your business. \u00a0Secondly believe us\u00a0 there is nothing for you to worry; \u00a0Sri Lanka can settle the matter without your demands, threats and warnings.<\/p>\n

There was nothing un- Constitutional about \u00a0your puppet Ranil Wickramasinghe loosing the office of Prime Minister. Read on and you may understand if you cut your bias and try to understand what really happened.<\/p>\n

What really happened was simple. In 2015 there was a Presidential election\u00a0 in which many political parties opposing the \u00a0popular President of Sri Lanka\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse formed a union called the UNF to put forward their Common Presidential Candidate Mr. Maithreepala Sirisena .<\/p>\n

The Foreign Governments\u00a0 the USA, UK, France, Germany, U.E and \u00a0our neighbour India-which has a problem since India has a tradition of Rajaas \u2013Kings. Hence the political leaders of India have a complex\u00a0 to\u00a0 tread the soil of the rich and well to do, hence rather than be with the \u00a0Communist China, it prefers to be with the Capitalist America ! So all these foreign States \u00a0helped the common Candidate of the Opposition \u00a0Mr. Maithreepala Sirisena to defeat the President Mahinda Rajapakse and win the election.<\/p>\n

Hence the Common Candidate\u00a0 Maithripala Sirisena won the Presidential election and formed an initial Government of 100 days on the 8th<\/sup> January,2015 until the next General Election in August,2015.\u00a0 The General election\u00a0 to elect Parliamentary candidates did not give a clear majority to any leading party to form a government of its own.<\/p>\n

Hence the UNF the union of political parties who had put forward a common candidate for the Presidential election, and the members of the union of political parties the UPFA that had gathered around the new President Maithripala Sirisena\u00a0 agreed to unite to form a National Government. In terms of the Constitution such a united National Government could have more than 30 members in the Cabinet. Therefore the National Government\u00a0 the UNF and UPFA\u00a0 which they called the Yahapalanaya Government had altogether a Cabinet of 45 Ministers.<\/p>\n

From the beginning the\u00a0 Yahapalanaya Government had conflicts within, many of the UPFA Ministers complaining \u00a0that the UNF Ministers are more priviledged\u00a0 and those of the UPFA were neglected\u00a0 when \u00a0taking Cabinet decisions. These differences came to a head\u00a0 when the Joint Opposition brought a No Confidence Motion against the Prime Minister Ranil.Wickramasinghe.<\/p>\n

16 members of the Yahapalanaya Government voted in favour of the NCM and\u00a0 left the government to\u00a0 join the Joint opposition.The Yahapalanaya yet managed to navigate as they still had a respectable numbers of Minister from both ranks-UNF and UPFA.\u00a0 But the situation changed on the 26 October, 2018 when the remaining members of the UPFA wrote a letter to the Speaker of the Parliament stating that they are withdrawing from the Yahapalanaya National Government.<\/p>\n

Therefore in terms of the relevant article of the Constitution the Cabinet of the Yahapalanaya National Government\u00a0 could not exist with the other UPFA members of the Cabinet leaving it.<\/p>\n

Therefore the \u00a0Cabinet of the Yahapalanaya Government ceasing to exist as a whole became dissolved and the Prime Minister became redundant or no longer needed \u00a0as the Office of Prime Minister became dissolved in the absence of a UNF and UPFA joint Cabinet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Ranil Wickramasinghe who did not interpret the Constitution correctly and knowing that,\u00a0 that was the only chance he would have\u00a0 to lead \u00a0a UNP Government, \u00a0holed himself in the Temple Trees the Official Residence of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka along with his politically blinded\u00a0 supporters and \u00a0appealed to the Western Countries \u00a0to come and help him as he is\u00a0 still the Prime Minister with a majority in the Parliament, and that the President of Sri Lanka had undemocratically appointed another as the new Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

That was the SOS on which the International Community\u00a0 jumped into Sri Lanka like\u00a0 a bull in a glass shop\u201d and make all sorts of undiplomatic demands from a President elected by the People of Sri\u00a0 Lanka a Sovereign State., which is blatant interference into the internal affairs of\u00a0 Sri Labnka a Sovereign State.<\/p>\n

The President did not have to dismiss Ranil\u00a0 Wickramasinghe from the Office of Prime Minister\u00a0 as he got automatically dismissed with the breaking up of the Cabinet. The President subsequently\u00a0 appointed a new Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s appointment of the new Prime Minister \u00a0is within the powers vested in him in the Constitution of Sri Lanka and that cannot be contested by any one, \u00a0least of all by the Speaker who is expected to be politically independent and the International Community \u00a0which has no right what so ever to interfere into internal affaires of the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera What a furore there is amoung UNP supporters in Sri Lanka, and Foreign Governments \u00a0supporting the puppet regime of Ranil Wickramasinghe ,\u00a0 since a number of members from his Cabinet of Ministers refused\u00a0 to work for him any more in a National Government, \u00a0resulting in\u00a0 the Cabinet ceasing to exist? That was not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83055","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=83055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}