A meeting between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was held yesterday (05) after the no-confidence motion, 'Ada' the Sinhalese daily newspaper reports.
Senior Ministers of the UNP had also joined the occasion. The meeting had taken place at the President’s official residence in Mahagama Sekara Mawatha, Colombo 7.
The unofficial sources say that the Prime Minister has expressed his ideas about the continuation of the national government during the meeting that had lasted for an hour. He is said to have also requested that SLFP MP’s and Ministers who voted in favour of the no confidence motion should resign from the government.
However sources say the President had not been favourable to this suggestion.
SLFP ministers Susil Premajayantha, Dayasiri Jayasekara, Chandima Weerakkody Thilanga Sumathipala, Dilan Perera, Susantha Punchinilame, B. Ekanayake, Anuradha Jayaratne, Tharanath Basnayake, Lakshman Wasantha, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, John Seneviratne, Nimal Lansa, S.S. B. Dissanayake, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena and Sudarshani Fernandopulle, Sumeda G. Jayasena had voted in support of the no-confidence motion on Tuesday (04).
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