President Maithripala Sirisena today expressed confidence that the consensual government between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the United National Party will continue uninterrupted until 2020.
President Sirisena addressing heads of media institutions and editors said that the SLFP was also committed towards maintaining the consensual government despite calls by a section of his own members and UNP members that they should have their own governments.
‘The reality is that the UNP or the SLFP cannot form its own government going by the parliamentary composition and they will need the support of some other members to form a joint governemnt’, he said.
‘In any case that is an issue of the Parliament and I will not have a problem to continue as the President. I am committed to continue this government’, he added.
He said, however the Party Central Committee which gave approval to form a consensual government in 2015 will meet again and decide about the continuity of this form of government before December.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Minister of Power, Kumara Jayakody, stated that in the future, internationally funded projects, such as power projects, will only be carried out through government-to-government (G2G) agreements and competitive procurement.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Israel, a major player in the global diamond and jewellery trade, has invited Sri Lankan gem and jewellery businessmen and designers to collaborate with Israeli diamond traders.
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