Colombo: Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party today (Nov 19) vowed to introduce a vote of no confidence against the Parliament Speaker who questioned her authority to prorogue the House.

People's Alliance (PA) will move a vote of no confidence against Speaker Joseph Michael Perera who ruled that the President's action two weeks ago to suspend Parliament was simply aimed at "paralysing" the legislature and any future attempt would be resisted, PA legislator Nimal Siripala de Silva said.

Kumaratunga's People's Alliance is the main Opposition party and together with the Marxist JVP, or People's Liberation Front, opposes the land-mark ruling by the Speaker who is a member of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's party.

However, the combined Opposition lacks the required simple majority to oust the Speaker.

PTI