Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka

Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Coat of Arms of Sri Lanka
Incumbent Karu Jayasuriya since 1 September 2015
Style	Honourable Speaker
Appointer	Parliament of Sri Lanka
Inaugural holder	Alfred Francis Molamure
Formation	7 July 1931
Succession	Second in the presidential line of succession
Deputy	Deputy Speaker of the Parliament
Website	Speaker of Parliament

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The Speakers Residence

The Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka is the presiding officer of the chamber. The Speaker fulfills a number of important functions in relation to the operation the House, which is based upon the British Westminster Parliamentary system. The office was established in 1947. The current Speaker of the Parliament is Karu Jayasuriya, in office since 1 September 2015.

List of Speakers of Parliament

Parties

  United National Party   Sri Lanka Freedom Party   Independent   Governors of British Ceylon

Name		Portrait	Party	Tenure	Head(s) of Government
Speakers of the State Council (1931–1947)
	Alfred 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)
	Alfred 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 – Present		Maithripala Sirisena

See also

• Parliament of Sri Lanka

References

External links

• Speaker of Parliament
• Speaker of the Seventh Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka