Dissolution of Sri Lanka Parliament by Prez illegal, rules SC
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has called the Parliament's dissolution by President Maithripala Sirisena illegal. Sirisena dissolved the Parliament in November after his party announced it lacked the majority to secure support for PM Mahinda Rajapaksa. The seven-member bench unanimously ruled that President cannot dissolve parliament until it completes four-and-a-half-years out of its five-year term.