The No-Confidence Motion against the Prime Minister, Cabinet, and Government handed over by the JVP will be debated in Parliament for two days on 10 July and 11 July.

The vote on the Motion will be taken at 6.30 p.m. on 11 July. 

The No-Confidence Motion, signed by six JVP MPs, was handed over in May, and is related to the Prime Minister, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Government’s failure to act on the intelligence information related to the Easter Sunday attacks, as well as the failure to stop the subsequent communal unrest.

A charge specifically against the Prime Minister is that he neglected a fundamental responsibility which he is expected to fulfil to the people of the country, by not participating in the sessions of the National Security Council.

The Motion alleges that the Prime Minister and the Ministers have acted in such a way to create confusion and insecurity in relation to ordinary public life and public security, subsequent to the series of attacks carried out on 21 April, by not accepting the responsibility for them and trying to put the blame on other parties, with the Ministers of the Government making irresponsible, contradictory, and false statements. It also states that certain Ministers of the Government have acted to obstruct the investigation process regarding the suspects arrested in relation to the Easter Sunday attacks, and obstructed or prevented law enforcement in relation to these crimes.

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