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.
The funeral of arguably the Queen of the Sinhala cinema Malini Fonseka, will be held with state honours on Monday, May 26, 2025, at the Independence Square.
First Bishop of the Batticaloa Diocese, Retired Bishop Joseph Ponnaiya, passed away today at the age of 74, following a brief illness.
The NPP government has been at the wheel for almost 6 months now. The time to keep looking at the rear view mirror and living in the past is about over.
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