‘Nobody can form a new Government without my blessing’: President

President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday that although some groups sought to alter the numbers in Parliament and capture power, everybody should remember that his approval was essential for the formation of a new Government.

Commenting on a statement made by an Opposition Member of Parliament as well as a former Minister who said that the power of the Government and the Presidency would lost after the support of 113 Members of Parliament was secured, the President pointed out that according to the Constitution nobody could form a new Government without his blessing.

He stated that when the current Government was forwarding its activities by removing all barriers some empty and vociferous individuals were trying to create a stir.

The President made these remarks while speaking at an event to open a new building for the Regional Education Office in Hingurakgoda yesterday.

“Some media outlets today have given space not for people who work with genuine intentions for the country, but for empty, vociferous people. Therefore, some people in the country have been given a false understanding of the Government,” the President said. 

“Some people raise these useless voices as they cannot bear the program of the current Government, carried out under my leadership as a leader who was raised from the village, through the protection of freedom and democracy in the country by changing the path the country had been heading to with fraud, corruption, waste and family-based authority,” he said.

“As a sacred Buddhist land there will only be a path towards a fair society through truth and justice,” he stated.

The new building has been built at a cost of Rs. 4,500,000 to help the administrative and management activities of the Hingurakgoda Educational Zone, with the objective of building a knowledge-based society. This was built under the provisions of the North Central Provincial Council.

The President launched the website of the Regional Education Office at this occasion.

Meanwhile, the Primary Medical Care Unit in Meegaswewa, Medirigiriya was declared open by the President. The Primary Medical Care Unit, which caters to nearly 3,000 families in Meegaswewa, Vadigawewa, Pathokwewa, Senarthpura, Kumudupura and Mayilagashandiya, was built at a cost of Rs. 11 million.

After the President opened the new unit he registered its first patient.

North Central Province Chief Minister Peshala Jayarathne, Provincial Health Minister M. Herath Banda and Provincial Minister Sampath Sri Nilantha were among those who participated in the event.