Sri Lanka’s suspended parliament will not be convened before November 16, President Maithripala Sirisena’s party said on Thursday, hours after officials at Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s office indicated that the House will meet on Monday.

Susil Premjayantha, a senior parliamentarian from Sirisena’s United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), said parliament is unlikely to meet on November 5.

He said that parliament needs time to prepare to meet and there is not enough time to meet on Monday.

Premjayantha said reports claiming parliament will meet on Monday were misleading and the House was most likely to meet on November 16, as announced by the President earlier.

Sirisena had suspended parliament till November 16 after Wickremesinghe sought an emergency session to prove his majority. The President is facing increasing political and diplomatic pressure to reconvene parliament which he had suspended apparently to allow Rajapaksa to engineer crossovers from Wickremesinghe’s side.

Earlier, officials at Rajapaksa’s office said that the President has agreed to call a parliamentary session on November 5.

Prior to the crisis, Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP) had the backing of 106 parliamentarians while Rajapaksa and Sirisena combine had 95 seats.

Rajapaksa has so far managed to rope in five lawmakers from Wickremesinghe’s party to bolster his strength to 101. One UNP lawmaker has offered his support to him.

It was, however, not immediately known if Rajapaksa has managed to secure 113 votes required to prove the majority.