I don’t aspire to be PM: Speaker

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Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today told Parliament that he nursed no aspirations of being the Prime Minister because there was already a Prime Minister in the country.

He said this in response to a question asked by an Opposition MP.

“I don’t want to become the Premier. There is one already. I have not made any request to be appointed the Premier," he said.

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