Political uncertainty continues; UNP for dissolution, Sirisena seeks SLFP backing
By Our Political Editor-Sunday, June 14, 2015--------------------------Dinesh Gunawardena
Heated arguments over electoral reforms; UNP opposes 237 seats, minority parties want double-ballot system -- Serious lapses in presidential security, President taken to the wrong venue last Monday
The 156-day old presidency is still not running smoothly in some respects. Last Tuesday morning, President Maithripala Sirisena’s security detail escorted him to the Parliament complex in Sri Jayawardenapura -Kotte. He had been told that the meeting with his MPs was to take place at a Committee Room in the Parliament Complex that sits in the middle of the Diyawanna Oya. There, he found UPFA parliamentarians had not turned up for the scheduled meeting with him. Mobile phones and radio communication sets went busy.