KARUNA SHINSHO, CNN ANCHOR: In Sri Lanka, opposition parties are protesting President Chandrika Kumaratunga's decision to suspend parliament. She made the move just ahead of a no-confidence vote against her minority government. Iqbal Athas has this update from Colombo.</s>IQBAL ATHAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She's acting very well with the executive powers she enjoys under the Constitution, and the second is that she is doing so to take stave off a serious crisis, the government has begun to face, particularly after her members became minority in parliament. This is the second time that her government has been prepared. It only last week the state of emergency, which has to be renewed every month by parliament, was to came up for renewal, but the government shied away from introducing regulations, and decided to ignore provisions of an existing counterterroism, which use only limiting power to the security forces and the police.</s>SHINSHO: The opposition controls 166 seats in parliament. The government, 109. The political crisis comes as the military and Tamil rebels have been engaging in new fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
In Sri Lanka, Opposition Parties Protesting President Chandrika Kumaratunga's Decision to Suspend Parliament