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18th amendment passed with 2/3 majority

UNF 09, SLMC 08 & TNA 01 voted for it

(Lanka-e-News, Sep. 08, 2010, 9.40 PM) The draft proposal of the 18th amendment was passed in Parliament today (18) with a majority of 144 votes. 161 voted for it while 17 voted against. MPs of the UNF, Lakshman Seneviratne, Abdul Cader, Earl Gunasekera, Nimal Wijesinghe, Prabha Ganeshan, Diggambaram, Sri Ranga and Upeksha Swarnamali; TNA Digamadulla District M.P. H R Piyasena and 8 MPs of the SLMC voted with the Govt. Democratic National Alliance and Tamil National Alliance MPS voted against the amendment. The main Opposition party, the UNP boycotted the amendment debate.