{"id":4448,"date":"2018-11-03T10:47:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2018-11-03T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T10:47:06","slug":"parliament-unlikely-to-convene-before-november-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/parliament-unlikely-to-convene-before-november-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament unlikely to convene before November 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Parliament is unlikely to convene before November 16th, Government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking to reporters at the Prime Minister\u2019s office today, Rambukwella said that so far no decision has been taken to convene Parliament next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that reports that Parliament will meet on November 7th was misleading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rambukwella said that the President has prorogued till November 16th and he has not issued notice to convene Parliament before that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Government spokesman also said that the new Government has the majority it needs to show in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIf someone asks then why we are not convening Parliament, that is because that is in the President\u2019s hands. We cannot convene Parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also said that on the first day of meeting the agenda for the next Parliament session will be decided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament is unlikely to convene before November 16th, Government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said today.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4449,"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-4448","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\/4448","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=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}