COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's parliament on Thursday agreed to chop the finances of the prime minister's place of business, a transfer designed to impede disputed premier Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose supporters boycotted the vote amid a weeks-long political disaster that shows no signal of ending.
Lawmakers adversarial to Rajapaksa, who has misplaced two no self assurance votes in parliament, regard his administration as illegitimate and say he should not be capable to use executive money for his day by day expenses.
"This means the prime minister will be dysfunctional. We will bring a similar motion tomorrow (on Friday) to cut down the expenditure of all other ministers," said Ravi Karunanayake, the previous finance minister who proposed Thursday's motion which handed 123 to none within the 225-member parliament.
Thursday's vote comes greater than a month after President Maithripala Sirisena induced the disaster via ousting former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and changing him with Rajapaksa, who was then in turn sacked via Parliament.
Rajapaksa loyalists said, Thursday's vote is illegal as a result of there's a pending court docket case over whether or not an strive via Sirisena to dissolve parliament on November 9 is constitutional. The court docket is about to rule on that issue subsequent week.
"This is illegal. We don't accept this as a legitimate motion," WDJ Seneviratne, a lawmaker in Rajapaksa's celebration, instructed Reuters ahead of the vote.
"We have informed the speaker of our position and asked him not to allow this illegal motion to be taken up."
Rajapaksa, beneath whose rule Sri Lanka completed its 2009 victory in a decades-long struggle towards rebels from the Tamil minority, is noticed as a hero via many among Sri Lanka’s Buddhist majority. He has been accused via diplomats of human rights abuses throughout the battle, which he denies.
Lawmakers adversarial to Rajapaksa, who has misplaced two no self assurance votes in parliament, regard his administration as illegitimate and say he should not be capable to use executive money for his day by day expenses.
"This means the prime minister will be dysfunctional. We will bring a similar motion tomorrow (on Friday) to cut down the expenditure of all other ministers," said Ravi Karunanayake, the previous finance minister who proposed Thursday's motion which handed 123 to none within the 225-member parliament.
Thursday's vote comes greater than a month after President Maithripala Sirisena induced the disaster via ousting former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and changing him with Rajapaksa, who was then in turn sacked via Parliament.
Rajapaksa loyalists said, Thursday's vote is illegal as a result of there's a pending court docket case over whether or not an strive via Sirisena to dissolve parliament on November 9 is constitutional. The court docket is about to rule on that issue subsequent week.
"This is illegal. We don't accept this as a legitimate motion," WDJ Seneviratne, a lawmaker in Rajapaksa's celebration, instructed Reuters ahead of the vote.
"We have informed the speaker of our position and asked him not to allow this illegal motion to be taken up."
Rajapaksa, beneath whose rule Sri Lanka completed its 2009 victory in a decades-long struggle towards rebels from the Tamil minority, is noticed as a hero via many among Sri Lanka’s Buddhist majority. He has been accused via diplomats of human rights abuses throughout the battle, which he denies.
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