{"id":4431,"date":"2018-11-02T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T10:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T10:50:48","slug":"sri-lanka-president-agrees-to-reconvene-parliament-on-november-7-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-president-agrees-to-reconvene-parliament-on-november-7-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka President agrees to reconvene parliament on November 7 &#8211; speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced Friday that President Maithripala Sirisena has agreed to reconvene the parliament on November 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Parliamentarians of United National Front, TNA and JVP met with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya on Friday for a floor test to determine which party held the majority. Speaker informed the lawmakers that the parliament will be reconvened on 7 November and expects the gazette to be issued soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The MPs have urged the speaker to convene parliament with his powers if President fails to reconvene the 225- member parliament which was prorogued by the President until November 16 after the dismissal of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointment of former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa as the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Wickremesinghe has refused to accept the dismissal and has dug in at the prime minister&#8217;s official residence Temple Trees since his unconstitutional removal on October 26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced Friday that President Maithripala Sirisena has agreed to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4432,"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-4431","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\/4431","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=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}