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Parliament voted twice against the former president, but he refused to back down. (File)
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena's allies boycotted parliament today as the country found itself in a second month of political turmoil.
Sirisena's supporters refused to stand in Colombo's Parliament, where last week's MPs fought and threw objects across the room, forcing the legislature to postpone.
The island has been politically paralyzed since October 26, when Sirisena fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapakse.
Parliament voted twice against the former strong president, but he refused to back down. Wickremesinghe, who holds the majority in power, has not moved away either.
The Speaker of Parliament has recognized none of these two men leaving the country adrift with rival factions claiming to command a government.
Sirisena's allies accused the president.
"We will not sit in parliament until the Speaker of the House of Commons agrees to act impartially," said Nimal de Silva, MP, United People & # 39; s Freedom Alliance of Sirisena.
Their opponents mocked the president, who dismissed the decision to reinstate Wickremesinghe. while Sri Lanka remains locked in a power vacuum.
"We usually see opposition parties boycotting," Parliament speaker Eran Wickramaratne, a Wickremesinghe faithful, told Parliament.
"But in Sri Lanka, you are in a unique situation a party claiming to be the government stays away from Parliament."
The United National Party, the deposed prime minister, plans to present to the Parliament a motion to block any further expenditure of Sirisen The Administration of A.
Sri Lanka is likely to enter in 2019 without the Parliament having approved a budget for the exercise.
Moody's recently lowered Sri Lanka's credit rating and warned that the island could default on its large foreign debt.
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