No UNP or OPP names yet

No MP from either the UNP or Our Power of People (OPP) took oaths as MPs this week to fill the two national list seats allocated to the parties as they are yet to nominate names to those seats.

Meanwhile, Ratnapura district SLPP MP Premalal Jayasekara too is yet to take oaths as an MP. He has been sentenced to death by the Ratnapura High Court for a murder committed in 2015. Mr Jayasekara has appealed against his guilty verdict.

Parliament's Serjeant-at-Arms has informed the Commissioner General of Prisons to make arrangements for Mr Jayasekara to attend Parliament.