COLOMBO: The Cabinet is trying to reconvene parliament in defiance of a two-week suspension by the president in her power struggle with the prime minister over how to resolve Sri Lanka's two-decade conflict with Tamil rebels, officials said yesterday.
Calling moves this week by President Chandrika Kumaratunga “a gross abuse of presidential power,'' spokesman G.L. Peiris said that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's administration was taking steps to convene the legislature, where the prime minister controls a slim majority.