Sri Lanka’s new cupboard to take oath subsequent week after landslide victory

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (File Picture)

The brand new Sri Lankan Cupboard will take their oaths on Monday earlier than President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, as introduced by his media workplace.
Underneath Dissanayake’s management, the Nationwide Individuals’s Energy secured a commanding two-thirds majority in Thursday’s parliamentary elections, together with a major victory within the Tamil-dominated Jaffna electoral district.
“The swearing-in of the brand new Cupboard of the federal government will happen tomorrow (18) at 10:00 am on the Presidential Secretariat, within the presence of President @anuradisanayake,” said the President’s Media Division on X.

The inaugural session of the tenth Parliament is scheduled for November 21.
Constitutional Article 46 stipulates a most of 30 Cupboard ministers and 40 deputy ministers.
The NPP’s dedication to decreasing authorities expenditure aligns with their advocacy for a smaller administration, PTI reported.
Following the NPP’s presidential victory in September, the administration operated with solely three ministers, together with the President.
The NPP’s parliamentary election success has established a number of unprecedented achievements.
They secured 61.56 per cent of complete votes, surpassing the earlier report of 60.33 per cent held by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s celebration in 2010.
The celebration claimed victory in 152 out of 168 polling divisions, exceeding Rajapaksa’s earlier report of 136.
They gained 21 out of twenty-two districts, surpassing Rajapaksa’s 2010 report of 19.
The NPP now holds 159 parliamentary seats, exceeding Rajapaksa’s 145 in 2020.
They grew to become the primary celebration to exceed 150 seats underneath the proportional illustration system, reaching a two-thirds absolute majority.