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The Presidential Secretariat (Sinhala: ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, romanized: janādhipati lēkam kāryālaya) is the office of the President of Sri Lanka. It provides the administrative and institutional framework for exercising the duties, responsibilities and powers vested in the President by the ...
President's House is the official residence and workplace of the President of Sri Lanka, located at Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka.Since 1804 it had been the residence of British Governors and Governors-General and was known as the "King's House" or the "Queen's House" until Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972.
Following the adoption of a republican constitution in 1972, the National State Assembly convened in the building until 1977, when it was renamed the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Parliament then moved out to a purpose-built complex in Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte in 1983; the building then became home to the Presidential Secretariat, housing the ...
Office of the President can refer to: ... (entity in the Office of the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party) ... (Sri Lanka) Office of the President of ...
The Secretariat housed the civil administration of the colony, with the offices of the Colonial Secretary and the Treasurer along with their staff and several government departments. Effectively the two building became the centre of the government of the island for the next twenty years till Ceylon gained independence in 1949.
On 13 July 2022, during the 2022 Sri Lankan protests, thousands of protesters stormed and occupied the Prime Minister's Office, after the President's House, the Presidential Secretariat and Temple Trees been stormed and occupied on the 9 July 2022 demanding that both president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe resign immediately.
Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe received backing from 92 lawmakers in the parliament on Tuesday, his media office said, giving momentum to his reelection bid in a vote in September. A ...
President of Sri Lanka; Prime Minister of Sri Lanka; Speaker of the Parliament; Chief Justice of Sri Lanka. Leader of the Opposition; Ministers of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka; Field marshal; Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka [2] Provincial Governors (within their respective provinces) Provincial Chief Ministers (within their respective ...