{"id":2730,"date":"2018-03-17T06:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T06:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2018-03-17T06:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T06:07:42","slug":"former-president-not-signing-the-no-confidence-motion-against-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/former-president-not-signing-the-no-confidence-motion-against-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Former president not signing the no-confidence motion against PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former president and joint opposition parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa is not signing the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, state media reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It is reported that the joint opposition has signed the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Wickremesinghe today (16\/03) and that former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has not signed it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa says his group has not decided whether the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s signature is needed or not. However, reportedly only about 20 MPs have signed the no-confidence motion against the Premier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile UNP Parliamentarian Nalin Bandara says there is no hesitation facing the no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister. He said that it is a right of the Joint opposition to bring no-faith motions reminding that they have unsuccessfully brought so many no-faith motions during this government and the same that will happen to this motion as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">MP Nalin Bandara says that there is no overall support for the joint opposition&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president and joint opposition parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa is not signing the no-confidence motion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","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=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}