{"id":90033,"date":"2019-06-07T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90033"},"modified":"2019-06-07T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T23:26:49","slug":"for-fear-of-impeachment-motion-sirisena-might-call-an-early-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/07\/for-fear-of-impeachment-motion-sirisena-might-call-an-early-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"FOR FEAR OF IMPEACHMENT MOTION, SIRISENA MIGHT CALL AN EARLY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The\nParliamentary Select Committee is hunting down the President in an\nunprecedented manner.&nbsp; If the witnesses are telling the truth, then any\nordinary citizen could form an independent opinion.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nPresident systematically dismantled the Security Council.&nbsp; He changed\nPrime Minister with a most trusted man, Mahinda Rajapakse. But even when MR was\nthe Prime Minister, he has also not been invited for the Security Council\nMeetings.&nbsp; So, President neither trusted Ranil nor Mahinda.&nbsp; At what\ncost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\nis noteworthy that Jayampathy Wickremaratne is a member of the PSC and\ncontinuing his line of questioning leading to cornering the President to the\nwall.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nshould not be surprised, if the findings of the PSC in some way find\nrecommendations to impeach the President.&nbsp; If MR also agrees, 2\/3 votes\ncan be obtained for such a resolution under Article 38 (2) and 38 (b) (2). It\nis extremely doubtful MR will support such a resolution, paving way for the\ncomplete take over of SLFP by SLPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To\navoid such distressing set of circumstances, the President might call for an\nearly Presidential Election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The Parliamentary Select Committee is hunting down the President in an unprecedented manner.&nbsp; If the witnesses are telling the truth, then any ordinary citizen could form an independent opinion.&nbsp; The President systematically dismantled the Security Council.&nbsp; He changed Prime Minister with a most trusted man, Mahinda Rajapakse. But even when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90033","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=90033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}