{"id":11724,"date":"2022-04-06T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T07:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2022-04-06T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T07:46:09","slug":"parliament-temporarily-adjourned-after-heated-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/parliament-temporarily-adjourned-after-heated-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament temporarily adjourned after heated debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena adjourned the parliamentary proceedings for 10 minutes this morning (April 06) following a heated debate that ensued in the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The session was suspended due to non-compliance of the Members of Parliament with today\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parliamentary session was convened at 10.00 a.m. this morning, amidst the current political turmoil and economic crisis that sparked a series of protests across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, the ruling party lost its two-thirds majority in the House after a total of 42 lawmakers of Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, Ceylon Workers\u2019 Congress and several other government-affiliated parties announced that they would sit independently in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though the 42 parliamentarians stepped away from government ranks, the SLPP however continues to possess a simple majority right now, with a 5-seat lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena adjourned the parliamentary proceedings for 10 minutes this morning (April&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11726,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions\/11726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}