Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekera, addressing a cabinet briefing today (14) admitted that the new government did not have the majority in Parliament.
However, he said that neither does the UNP have a majority either.
Meanwhile, Cabinet spokesman Mahinda Samarasinghe at the same brefing said President Maithripala Sirisena will take action based on the constitution after having received a copy of the no-confidence motion.
He added that Mahinda Rajapaksa will remain as Prime Minister until the President appoints a new Prime Minister and issues a gazette notification to that effect.
The no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was signed by 122 MPs and handed over by the JVP to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya this afternoon.
Accordingly, Speaker Jayasuriya submitted a copy of the document to the President earlier today (Nov 14)
A QR Code for fuel distribution for vehicles has been implemented from today.
The Editor, of Lankaenews website Sandaruwan Senadheera was arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport while returning from UK.
Prices of both used and modified vehicles are expected to drop with the government’s decision to remove the surcharge of 50 per cent imposed on vehicles
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