The Constitutional Council recommended the name of Senior Additional Solicitor General Jayantha Jayasuriya to the post of Attorney General.

The proposal was made when the Constitutional Council met today.

The AG post was vacated following the recent retirement of Attorney General Yuwanjana Wanasundara.

Jayasuriya joined the Attorney-General's Department in November 1983 and was promoted a Senior State Counsel in 1996. He was appointed as Deputy Solicitor-General in 2004 and promoted as an Additional Solicitor-General in 2011. He was made President's Councel in 2012