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The Speaker of the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the presiding officer of the chamber. The current Speaker of the Parliament is Karu Jayasuriya since 1 September 2015.
Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
පාර්ලිමේන්තු කථානායක இலங்கை நாடாளுமன்ற சபாநாயகர் | |
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Style | Honourable Speaker |
Residence | The Speaker's Residence, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte |
Appointer | Parliament of Sri Lanka |
Constituting instrument | Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka |
Inaugural holder | Alexander Francis Molamure |
Formation | 7 July 1931 (as Speaker of the State Council of Ceylon) |
Succession | Second in the presidential line of succession |
Deputy | Deputy Speaker of the Parliament |
Salary | LKR 822,000 annually (2016)[1][2] |
Website | www |
United National Party Sri Lanka Freedom Party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Independent Governors of British Ceylon
Name | Portrait | Party | Tenure | Head(s) of Government | ||
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Speakers of the State Council (1931–1947) | ||||||
Alexander Francis Molamure | Non-partisan | 7 July 1931 – 10 December 1934 | Graeme Thomson Francis Graeme Tyrrell Reginald Edward Stubbs | |||
Forester Augustus Obeysekera | Non-partisan | 11 December 1934 – 7 December 1935 | Reginald Edward Stubbs | |||
Waithilingam Duraiswamy | Non-partisan | 17 March 1936 – 4 July 1947 | Reginald Edward Stubbs Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn Andrew Caldecott Henry Monck-Mason Moore | |||
Speakers of the Ceylonese House of Representatives (1947–1972) | ||||||
Alexander Francis Molamure | United National Party | 14 October 1947 – 25 January 1951 | Henry Monck-Mason Moore D. S. Senanayake | |||
Albert Peries | United National Party | 13 February 1951 – 18 February 1956 | D. S. Senanayake Dudley Senanayake John Kotelawala | |||
Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail | Independent | 19 April 1956 – 5 December 1959 | John Kotelawala S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Wijeyananda Dahanayake | |||
Tikiri Banda Subasinghe | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 30 March 1960 – 23 April 1960 | Dudley Senanayake | |||
R. S. Pelpola | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 5 August 1960 – 24 January 1964 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |||
Hugh Fernando | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 24 January 1964 – 17 December 1964 | ||||
Albert Peries | United National Party | 5 April 1965 – 21 September 1967 | Dudley Senanayake | |||
Shirley Corea | United National Party | 27 September 1967 – 25 March 1970 | ||||
Stanley Tillekeratne | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 7 June 1970 – 22 May 1972 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |||
Speakers of the National State Assembly (1972–1978) | ||||||
Stanley Tillekeratne | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 22 May 1972 – 18 May 1977 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | |||
Anandatissa de Alwis | United National Party | 4 August 1977 – 7 September 1978 | J. R. Jayewardene | |||
Speakers of the Sri Lankan Parliament (1978–present) | ||||||
Anandatissa de Alwis | United National Party | 7 September 1978 – 13 September 1978 | J. R. Jayewardene | |||
Bakeer Markar | United National Party | 21 September 1978 – 30 August 1983 | ||||
E. L. Senanayake | United National Party | 6 September 1983 – 20 December 1988 | ||||
M. H. Mohamed | United National Party | 9 March 1989 – 24 June 1994 | Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetunga | |||
Kiri Banda Ratnayake | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 25 August 1994 – 10 October 2000 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Chandrika Kumaratunga | |||
Anura Bandaranaike | United National Party | 18 October 2000 – 10 October 2001 | Chandrika Kumaratunga | |||
M. Joseph Michael Perera | United National Party | 19 December 2001 – 7 February 2004 | ||||
W. J. M. Lokubandara | United National Party | 22 April 2004 – 8 April 2010 | Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa | |||
Chamal Rajapaksa | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 22 April 2010 – 26 June 2015 | Mahinda Rajapaksa Maithripala Sirisena | |||
Karu Jayasuriya | United National Party | 1 September 2015 – 20 August 2020 | Maithripala Sirisena | |||
Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena | Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna | 20 August 2020 – Present | Gotabaya Rajapaksa |
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