{"id":5379,"date":"2019-02-04T10:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T10:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T10:53:06","slug":"at-national-day-celebrations-president-says-no-to-national-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/at-national-day-celebrations-president-says-no-to-national-government\/","title":{"rendered":"At National Day celebrations President says no to National Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking at the National Day celebrations at Galle Face today, President Maithripala Sirisena said that he will oppose forming another National Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President said that he had seen reports of moves to form a National Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI strongly oppose forming a National Government if the National Government is being formed just for the reasons mentioned in the media,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also questioned if it is ethical to think of forming a National Government based on a request put forward by one Parliamentarian and one political party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella had last week submitted a proposal to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya saying the United National Front is seeking Parliament approval to form a National Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kiriella had said the National Government will be formed to increase the number of cabinet Ministers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President also noted that the Government has failed to ensure a solution to the economic issues faced by the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In his speech, the President also criticised the conduct of some Parliamentarians in Parliament in recent times which led to Parliament property being damaged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was the chief guest at Sri Lanka\u2019s National Day event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the National Day celebrations at Galle Face today, President Maithripala Sirisena said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5391,"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-5379","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\/5379","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=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}