{"id":11842,"date":"2022-05-17T06:11:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11842"},"modified":"2022-05-17T06:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:11:41","slug":"mps-fail-to-reach-consensus-on-deputy-speaker-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mps-fail-to-reach-consensus-on-deputy-speaker-post\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs fail to reach consensus on Deputy Speaker post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parliament MPs today failed to reach a consensus on the post of Deputy Speaker after two names were proposed, forcing Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to call for a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) had proposed MP Rohini Kavirathna for the post while the Government proposed Ajith Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some ruling party MPs and the independent group, including the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) urged the SJB and the Government to reach a consensus and propose one name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, both sides failed to reach a consensus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A heated exchange took place between the Opposition, Government and the Speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Speaker later informed the House that if there is no consensus then he has no choice but to go for a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A vote was later taken to elect a new Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several MPs decided to spoil their vote as a mark of protest over the failure to reach a consensus on the Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament MPs today failed to reach a consensus on the post of Deputy Speaker&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11843,"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-11842","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\/11842","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=11842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}