Govt. lost as per G.L.’s theory!

 Saturday, 26 April 2014 

Reviewing the final outcome in Geneva, external affairs minister Prof. G.L. Peiris has remarked that it was a victory for Sri Lanka, and going by his calculations, the governing party had lost by majority vote the votes on the gazettes extraordinary one, two and three under the strategic development projects act.

That is so, going by the MPs who had voted against the gazettes and the MPs who had boycotted the two votes.

There were 113 votes in support of the gazette presented on April 24, and 42 voted against. Together with the MPs who had boycotted the vote, that 42 votes add up to 154 votes. Accordingly, excepting the speaker, 42 MPs voted against and 112 boycotted, and that add up to 154 votes against the government.

Furthermore, the second and third gazettes were passed even without a simple majority, which is 113 votes or more.

For the second gazette, 112 voted in favour and 44 voted against, while there were 109 ‘yes’ votes and 44 ‘no’ votes for the third gazette. There, the government lost three more votes.

The UNP, JVP and the TNA voted against, while government affiliates SLMC and minister Wimal Weerawansa abstained.

JHU’s minister Champika Ranawaka and Athuraliye Rathana Thera voted against. Accordingly, at yesterday’s (25) vote, the number of MPs who had voted against and who had abstained, according to Prof. G.L.’s Geneva theory, makes it that the government has lost even the simple majority in parliament.