22 July 2022 09:34 am Views - 416
President Ranil Wickremesinghe will appoint an interim Cabinet including MP Dinesh Gunawardena as the Prime Minister today for a short period to run the essential services until a fully-fledged one representative of all the parties is worked out later, Daily Mirror learns.
Sources said that while time was short, the previous cabinet of ministers who functioned under Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe will be sworn in today after the Prime Minister takes oaths, in order to restart the stalled work but once Parliament convenes on July 27th, discussions on a national government will take place. Once political parties agree to join a national government, the cabinet will be reshuffled and a new cabinet of ministers will take oaths, sources said. “Right now there are a lot of