Mangala criticizes President’s actions

11:52 AM NOV 14 2018

Former Minister of Finance and UNP Parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera, issuing a press release, stated that the statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena, for a third time, after ousting the former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and proroguing Parliament had clearly shown that he was behaving  like a dictator.

The release points out that all law abiding citizens of the country, irrespective of their political affiliations, have condemned the unconstitutional actions of the President. The release states that even the international community had not approved the illegal administration sworn into office by the President and in the light of such a situation the remarks made by the President could only aggravate the crisis.

He has stated that the claims made by the President that some Parliamentarians had been bought over for amounts such as Rs 100 million to Rs 150 million and some at Rs 500 million was nothing but a figment of his imagination.

Samaraweera has noted in the release that his Party possesses evidence that bigwigs of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party had been behind the attempt to buy over MPs from his Party to swell the number of MPs in the House and that his Party will lodge a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption to this effect once the Constitutional crisis is resolved.