President swears in new Cabinet including UNP entrants
18 jumbos cross over:
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday appointed 10
UNP dissident MPs as Cabinet Ministers in the first Cabinet reshuffle
under his Presidency. Eight other UNPers who crossed over to Government
ranks were also sworn in as either Deputy or non-Cabinet Ministers.
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Cross overs give Govt absolute majority - Media Minister
MEDIA Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said
yesterday that the Government now commanded an absolute majority in
Parliament after securing 113 seats with the cross over of a section of
the UNP and the SLMC into its ranks.
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