The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Badulla· 23 October 2025 ·Procedural: Privilege Matter: Parliamentary Privilege and Code of Conduct Violation

Parliamentary Procedure

AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri asserted that Members of Parliament have the right to raise matters of privilege at any time. He objected to attempts to limit that right by referring to procedural clauses, addressing the Speaker on the matter.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Even so, it has been misdirected here. We, as Members, also have that right to raise privilege at any time. Do not attempt to curtail that right by pointing to various clauses, Hon. Speaker.

Provenance

Source: Hansard, Thursday, 23 October 2025 ·No. 22641 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
Page · column: not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
Permalink: /lk/speeches/7914

View source PDF ↗ Suggest a correction

Cite as: The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 23 October 2025. No. 22641. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/7914