Wijetunga cabinet
Wijetunga cabinet | |
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12th Cabinet of Sri Lanka | |
Date formed | 1 May 1993 |
Date dissolved | 12 November 1994 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | D. B. Wijetunga |
Head of government | D. B. Wijetunga |
Deputy head of government | Ranil Wickremesinghe (1993–94) Chandrika Kumaratunga (1994) |
No. of ministers | 5 |
Total no. of members | 5 |
Member party |
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Status in legislature | Majority government 125 / 225 (56%) (1993-94) Majority coalition 121 / 225 (54%) (1994) |
Opposition party |
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Opposition leader | Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1993–94) Gamini Dissanayake (1994) Ranil Wickremesinghe (1994) |
History | |
Election | 1994 parliamentary |
Outgoing election | 1994 presidential |
Legislature terms | 9th, 10th |
Predecessor | Premadasa |
Successor | Kumaratunga |
The Wijetunga cabinet was the central government of Sri Lanka led by President D. B. Wijetunga between 1993 and 1994. It was formed in May 1993 after the assassination of Wijetunga's predecessor Ranasinghe Premadasa and it ended in November 1994 when Wijetunga chose not to contest in the 1994 presidential election. The Wijetunga cabinet saw Sri Lanka's first cohabitation government following the opposition People's Alliance's victory in the 1994 general election.
Cabinet members
UNP government (1993–1994)
Name | Portrait | Party | Office | Took office | Left office | Refs | |
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D. B. Wijetunga | United National Party | President | 7 May 1993[a] | 12 November 1994 | [1] | ||
Minister of Finance | [b] | 31 August 1994 | [2] | ||||
Minister of Buddhist Affairs | [3][4] | ||||||
Minister of Defence | 7 May 1993 | 12 November 1994 | [3][4] | ||||
Ranil Wickremesinghe | United National Party | Prime Minister | 7 May 1993 | 19 August 1994 | [5] | ||
A. C. S. Hameed | United National Party | Minister of Justice | [b] | August 1993 | [6] | ||
Minister of Foreign Affairs | August 1993 | [6] | |||||
Harold Herath | United National Party | Minister of Foreign Affairs | [b] | August 1993 | [6] | ||
Minister of Justice | August 1993 | [6] | |||||
W. J. M. Lokubandara | United National Party | Minister of Cultural Affairs and Information | [b] | August 1993 | [6] | ||
Minister of Education and Higher Education | August 1993 | [6] |
SLFP government (1994)
Notes
References
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- ^ a b "List of Ministers and Deputy Ministers". Ministry of Finance.
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- ^ a b "Prime Ministers". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
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