(UTV|COLOMBO) – Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has denied recent speculation in the news media that he threatened to resign his office if there were fresh attempts to appoint a Prime Minister without any supportive parliamentary majority.
The Office of the Speaker of Parliament yesterday issued a communique in which it dismissed as “false and baseless” a statement attributed to the Speaker published in certain sections of the print and social media to the effect that he (the Speaker) would resign from his post if there was “a repetition of an illegal and anti-democratic incident similar to that of October 26, 2018 where a Prime Minister is sworn in without commending a Parliamentary majority”.
The communique added that “The Speaker neither entertained such an opinion nor made such a statement. It said the Speakers firm stand was that Parliament should never relent in taking maximum possible steps against any action taken against Parliamentary democracy. The above false statement attributed to the Speaker is therefore only a hypothesis made by the relevant sections of the media and the Speaker never believed that such a situation would ever crop up in Parliament again.”
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