{"id":4527,"date":"2018-11-14T03:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T03:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2018-11-14T03:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T03:12:50","slug":"speaker-convenes-parliament-tomorrow-in-accordance-with-old-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/speaker-convenes-parliament-tomorrow-in-accordance-with-old-gazette\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker convenes Parliament tomorrow in accordance with old gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has convened Parliament tomorrow in accordance with the old gazette issued by President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jayasuriya said that since the Supreme Court had issued a stay order on the new gazette issued by the President dissolving Parliament and calling for elections, the earlier gazette convening Parliament on November 14th will now be valid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As a result, the Speaker\u2019s office said that a party leader\u2019s meeting will be held tomorrow at 8.30am following which Parliament will convene at 10am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Speaker said that after several days of political turmoil Parliament must now perform its role by allowing the elected representatives of the people to reach a determination on the legitimacy of their Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jayasuriya also urged the public, especially persons in positions of responsibility to conduct themselves in a calm and dignified manner in order to avoid unnessercery provocation and instability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has convened Parliament tomorrow in accordance with the old gazette issued&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4528,"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-4527","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\/4527","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=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}