President to appoint new Cabinet with Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has decided to appoint a 15-member caretaker Cabinet with Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe informed the President yesterday that he would resign from his post.
Several UNP ministers have pointed out that, in 2015, the UPFA Cabinet resigned, allowing President Maithripala Sirisena to form a caretaker government. At that time the UNP had only 41 seats. Following that example, President Rajapaksa must be given an opportunity to form a government, they have said.
A senior official from the Prime Minister’s Office told The Island that Wickremesinghe was expected to announce his resignation at the UNF party leaders’ meeting scheduled for today.
The new Cabinet is expected to be sworn in tomorrow.
The caretaker government will go on until March 02, 2020. A general election will be declared thereafter.
(Source: The Island – By Anura Balasuriya and Akitha Perera)
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What about the remaining?
How many Rajapaksa’s in the Cabinet?
Of course, Brother 10% Basil is so efficient, he can handle at least 10 Cabinet Portfolios.
Of the remaining five, 2 can go to Yoshitha and 3 to Namal.
Dear Andrada, Thank you so much for your predictions. You will see it soon. How ever, you should agree that the reducing this jumbo size cabinet it a step towards right direction!
although jumbo cabinet will be reduced expenses will be the more than super jumbo wait and see as the saying goes eliwena jameta honda honda sellam
“eliwena jameta honda honda sellam” – whatever we are going to see, that sellam will not beat the Central Bank clean up sellam we saw with the pious Yahapalanaya priests!