{"id":5940,"date":"2019-04-06T07:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T07:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2019-04-06T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T07:37:33","slug":"budget-passed-with-amendments-tna-votes-for-slfp-absent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/budget-passed-with-amendments-tna-votes-for-slfp-absent\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget passed with amendments, TNA votes for, SLFP absent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 2019 Budget was passed in Parliament with amendments yesterday with 119 MPs voting for and 74 against it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Tamil National Alliance and the Ceylon Worker\u2019s Congress voted for the budget with the United National Party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Joint Opposition and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna voted against it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka Freedom Party members were absent during the vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The budget was presented to Parliament last month and after one month of debate it was passed today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna had attempted to seek support to defeat the budget but those attempts failed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella said that the vote showed the confidence Parliament has on the Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The budget, which is usually presented in November, was delayed as a result of a political coup last October following a deep first between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Budget was passed in Parliament with amendments yesterday with 119 MPs voting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5941,"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-5940","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\/5940","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=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}