Hon. Gayantha Karunathilleka
Hon. Gayantha Karunathilleka questioned the Speaker’s decision to reject a submitted No-Confidence Motion, noting that such motions had previously been accepted under other Speakers and governments. He requested that the Attorney-General’s report and the Parliamentary Secretariat’s report cited in the Speaker’s decision be tabled, arguing this was necessary to inform Members and uphold the dignity of the Speaker’s Office and Parliament.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, regarding the No-Confidence Motion that we submitted, you made a statement yesterday. At that time we requested that the Attorney-General’s report and the report of the Secretariat be tabled for our information. You repeatedly said that in arriving at your decision you quoted from various sources, but you did not specifically point them out. There have been many Speakers and many Governments that accepted No-Confidence Motions; we have seen how they were faced. But this is the first time a Speaker has rejected a No-Confidence Motion of this nature. We question why a Government with 159 Members cannot face a No-Confidence Motion. Therefore, we repeatedly request that, in order to safeguard the dignity of the Office of Speaker and this august Assembly, please table those two reports today for our information.
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Cite as: Hon. Gayantha Karunathilleka. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 11 September 2025. No. 1758278142029989. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/1032