COLOMBO: Sri Lanka‘s major Opposition chief Sajith Premadasa on Thursday met the nation’s newly elected President Ranil Wickremesinghe and urged him to strengthen the Parliament committee system “to realize nationwide consensus somewhat than allotting ministerial portfolios to political opportunists.”
Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lankan President on the nation’s Parliament on Thursday after huge protests broke out within the Island nation with requires the ouster of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Taking to Twitter, Premadasa wrote, “Met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe on the celebration leaders’ assembly as we speak. Had a cordial and frank alternate of concepts. Reiterated the opposition’s dedication to supply constructive assist to avert distress and catastrophe.”
“Proposed to strengthen the committee system in Parliament to realize nationwide consensus somewhat than allotting ministerial portfolios to political opportunists leading to a drain of scarce nationwide assets,” the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) chief added.
In the meantime, one of many calls for that Sri Lankans have been making is the rollback of the twentieth modification. The twentieth modification introduced again a lot of the constitutional powers to the President which was beforehand abolished within the nineteenth modification.
The nineteenth Modification (19A) to the Structure of Sri Lanka was handed and it envisaged the dilution of powers of the Government Presidency, which had been in drive since 1978. Nevertheless, the twentieth modification introduced again a lot of the constitutional powers to the President.
Ranil Wickremesinghe obtained 134 votes within the parliament vote following the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the presidency final week amid extreme financial turmoil within the nation.
Quickly after successful the vote by secret poll, Wickremesinghe addressed the Parliament, calling on all legislators together with the opposition parliamentarians to unite and work along with him to guide Sri Lanka out of the present financial disaster.
“We’re at a vital juncture. There’s an financial disaster and the youth need a system change. Folks need all parliamentarians to return collectively,” mentioned Wickremesinghe.
Out of the 225 parliamentarians, 223 voted to elect a brand new president and there have been 4 invalid votes. One other two candidates, parliamentarian of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna celebration Dullas Alahapperuma, and Nationwide Folks’s Energy chief Anura Kumara Dissanayake, received 82 votes and three votes, respectively.
Wickremesinghe will not be a brand new identify in politics and has served because the Prime Minister of the island nation six occasions earlier. He was one of many high contenders for the Presidential election during which members of the Home voted by a secret poll.
Earlier, Wickremesinghe was appointed because the interim president of Sri Lanka after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled overseas after his palace was stormed by indignant protesters amid the unprecedented financial disaster.
After his official residence within the capital, Colombo was stormed by tens of hundreds of indignant protesters final week, Sri Lanka’s ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the nation to the Maldives earlier than flying out to Singapore. Rajapaksa had supplied his resignation after fleeing the nation.
The principle opposition chief Sajith Premadasa on Tuesday withdrew his candidature from the presidential race and mentioned he was supporting rival candidate Dullas Alahapperuma for the highest submit.
Sri Lanka’s economic system is bracing for a pointy contraction because of the unavailability of primary inputs for manufacturing, an 80 per cent depreciation of the foreign money since March 2022, coupled with an absence of international reserves and the nation’s failure to fulfill its worldwide debt obligations.
A whole bunch of Sri Lankans proceed to queue up at petrol pumps throughout the debt-ridden nation every single day amid gasoline scarcity, and numerous persons are ditching their vehicles and bikes for bicycles for his or her every day commute.
The financial disaster which is the worst in Sri Lanka’s historical past has prompted an acute scarcity of important gadgets like gasoline.
Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lankan President on the nation’s Parliament on Thursday after huge protests broke out within the Island nation with requires the ouster of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Taking to Twitter, Premadasa wrote, “Met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe on the celebration leaders’ assembly as we speak. Had a cordial and frank alternate of concepts. Reiterated the opposition’s dedication to supply constructive assist to avert distress and catastrophe.”
“Proposed to strengthen the committee system in Parliament to realize nationwide consensus somewhat than allotting ministerial portfolios to political opportunists leading to a drain of scarce nationwide assets,” the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) chief added.
In the meantime, one of many calls for that Sri Lankans have been making is the rollback of the twentieth modification. The twentieth modification introduced again a lot of the constitutional powers to the President which was beforehand abolished within the nineteenth modification.
The nineteenth Modification (19A) to the Structure of Sri Lanka was handed and it envisaged the dilution of powers of the Government Presidency, which had been in drive since 1978. Nevertheless, the twentieth modification introduced again a lot of the constitutional powers to the President.
Ranil Wickremesinghe obtained 134 votes within the parliament vote following the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the presidency final week amid extreme financial turmoil within the nation.
Quickly after successful the vote by secret poll, Wickremesinghe addressed the Parliament, calling on all legislators together with the opposition parliamentarians to unite and work along with him to guide Sri Lanka out of the present financial disaster.
“We’re at a vital juncture. There’s an financial disaster and the youth need a system change. Folks need all parliamentarians to return collectively,” mentioned Wickremesinghe.
Out of the 225 parliamentarians, 223 voted to elect a brand new president and there have been 4 invalid votes. One other two candidates, parliamentarian of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna celebration Dullas Alahapperuma, and Nationwide Folks’s Energy chief Anura Kumara Dissanayake, received 82 votes and three votes, respectively.
Wickremesinghe will not be a brand new identify in politics and has served because the Prime Minister of the island nation six occasions earlier. He was one of many high contenders for the Presidential election during which members of the Home voted by a secret poll.
Earlier, Wickremesinghe was appointed because the interim president of Sri Lanka after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled overseas after his palace was stormed by indignant protesters amid the unprecedented financial disaster.
After his official residence within the capital, Colombo was stormed by tens of hundreds of indignant protesters final week, Sri Lanka’s ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the nation to the Maldives earlier than flying out to Singapore. Rajapaksa had supplied his resignation after fleeing the nation.
The principle opposition chief Sajith Premadasa on Tuesday withdrew his candidature from the presidential race and mentioned he was supporting rival candidate Dullas Alahapperuma for the highest submit.
Sri Lanka’s economic system is bracing for a pointy contraction because of the unavailability of primary inputs for manufacturing, an 80 per cent depreciation of the foreign money since March 2022, coupled with an absence of international reserves and the nation’s failure to fulfill its worldwide debt obligations.
A whole bunch of Sri Lankans proceed to queue up at petrol pumps throughout the debt-ridden nation every single day amid gasoline scarcity, and numerous persons are ditching their vehicles and bikes for bicycles for his or her every day commute.
The financial disaster which is the worst in Sri Lanka’s historical past has prompted an acute scarcity of important gadgets like gasoline.