The ONLY way out in Sri Lanka
Posted on November 19th, 2018

H. L. D. Mahindapala

Leaving aside the legalities, politicalities, Constitutionalities and the complexities of the current imbroglio in which the nation is grounded (temporarily), the underlying issues in the Constitutional crisis can be reduced to one single question: At a time when all three branches of the state are trapped in a deadlock without a pragmatic solution in sight should not the people – the ultimate sovereign authority acceptable to all competing parties for  power – be allowed to express their will in deciding who should be empowered to govern them? Right now the crisis is in the failure to decide who should govern the people. Rival parties are claiming legitimacy. However, all parties are agreed on holding elections. If so why not hold elections, leaving aside the legalities, politicalities, Constitutionalities and the complexities?

The crisis haunting the state is deteriorating at a rapid rate daily. The befuddled nation has hit rock bottom. The chaos that reigns supreme is confined to Parliament for the moment. Fortunately, the burning passions of politics have not spilled over to the streets so far. Rightly or wrongly, some attribute the prevailing disorder directly to the decision of the Supreme Court which has had a direct impact on rival parties competing for power. Though it is an interim order, without any finality about it, the immediate political consequences has been to exacerbate the polarisation of the opposing parties.

This certainly was not the intention of the Supreme Court. But the unintended consequences have led to further polarisation and destabilisation of the nation. Undoubtedly, this points to the fact that decision-makers at all levels must factor in the possible unintended consequences which can throw the nation into an uncontrollable spin. Without being judgmental, it cannot be denied that all hell broke loose after Supreme Court issued the interim order to reverse the President’s decision to (1) appoint a new prime minister (in his opinion”, as he did when he appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister when he had only 41 MPs in a House of 225) and (2) hold general elections on January 7, 2019.

In a politically charged atmosphere, some may even conclude that the Supreme Court had poured a bucket of fuel into the sparks that were waiting to blow up into an unmanageable conflagration. Prime time news globally is having a field day exposing the mayhem of the white-clad MPs going at each other on the floor of the House. There is no doubt now that if the prevailing agony is prolonged it will lead to undermine the foundations and the future of the oldest Asia-Pacific democracy which began in 1931 with the introduction of universal franchise.

Despite criticisms against the decision of the Supreme Court – and many more are due to be hurled depending on the final decision in early December  —  it is also absolutely clear that, as things stand now, the only authority that can produce a solution is the Supreme Court. Though nominally it has been asked to define the law that should guide the nation in this crisis, in reality it has been asked to play a decisive political role — perhaps the most critical in its history — that can either plunge the nation instantly into ungovernable disorder, perhaps leading to a crisis as harrowing as the 33-year-old North-South war which ended only the other day, or save the nation from the impending descent into hell.

In this maddening crisis the shocked, mystified and confused people are looking for a saviour. Only the Supreme has the power to play that role at a time when the naked power struggle is exploding in all its fury on the floor of the House. It looks as if we are in a free fall, tumbling in a bottomless vacuum, without any means to stop it. The Supreme Court, consisting of citizens of this nation, is not that naïve to hide behind the illusion of being above all that is going on now, with each day dragging the nation deeper into the depths of despair. The future is in its hands.

Their task right now is also to make the future safe and liveable. It has the option to return to the fundamental political principles enunciated in the Mahavamsa:1.  make our island a fit dwelling  place for men.” (MV 1:44) and 2.anoint the king / state that can pave the path for the good of all” (MV IV:7). It is also in the interests of the judges to do so because from the day after they retire they too will step down into the world they are about to make from the bench. They too will be recipients of the consequences they make in early December.

Of course, the Supreme Court, inter alia, will have to face myriad questions before it sits down to write the final verdict that will make or break the nation. The most convulsive and dizzying issue it has to face is the bahu-bootha Constitution”, as described aptly by the former President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Disentangling the contradictory provisions of a constitution, made hurriedly and expediently for competing  political  parties to perpetuate their rule forever, will be like cleaning  the Augean stables. In one sense, the Supreme Courts is asked to purify the Constitution which has been cut, chopped and twisted into a divisive and destructive tool by power-hungry politicians. This, at first sight, requires a surgical operation to remove the cancer of the powers concentrated in the Presidency and the Prime Minister in Parliament. Recent history indicates clearly that neither of the two parties can be trusted to perform their duties with commendable integrity.

When the two critical branches of the power – the Legislature and the Executive – are at loggerheads and fail to generate trust in the body politic who then can be trusted to fulfil the duties of the state? The obvious answer is the Supreme Court, the third arm of the state. Right now all eyes are focussed on the Supreme Court wondering whether it will act as the benign and rational provider of an answer that will serve the prime interests of the people without dipping its neutral hands in the murky and corrupted waters of politics.

So the task before the Courts is daunting and yet rewarding if it can step in to enshrine the sovereignty of the people in whose name the Constitution was made. It will have to walk a tight rope between the tangled legalities and a lasting pragmatic / people-oriented solution that would rescue the nation. It will be torn between two masters: serving the law and the serving the best interests of the sovereign people. Of the two, legal minds generally agree that the sovereign rights of the people stand way above the capricious interpretations of the unreliable law. Going to courts is like a woman going into a saree shop: when every saree is attractive who knows which one she will pick? So which way will the Court go? Is there a guiding star for the Courts to navigate their way through a rock and a hard place?

In the current crisis it is obvious that primacy should be given, above all other considerations, to pragmatism, because the Constitution, with its contradictory dialectics, is bedevilling not only the best of legal minds but also the future of peace and stability. By and large, the people expect their right to carry on their normal lives in a stable and nonviolent society be restored by the final decision of the Supreme Court. The nation is not only befuddled but horrifited by the legal eagles propounding contradictory interpretations of the bahu-bootha Constitution”. Each party is emphasising the clause/s favourable to them at the expense of the other – a common practice in the legal profession. But in this complex and confusing situation preserving the democratic norms and, most of all, serving the overall interests of the sovereign people, leaderless at the moment, should be given priority. At this moment the Supreme Court is tasked with the unenviable  mission of leading the nation out of darkness. When the other two competing branches are locked in a do-or-die battle for power can the Supreme Court, acting as the neutral third party, rise as the saviour of the nation?

It is also necessary in this confusing state, clouded with teeming questions, to define the central issue/s to find the answer/s. Coming  down to  the  nitty-gritty, I think the following two questions are relevant: 1. Can the head of state sack the prime minister who commands a majority in the House? Related to this is the other: 2. In a crisis situation where the two main branches of the state – the legislature and the executive – are locked in an impasse, virtually paralysing the state, should the judiciary, the third branch, acting as the neutral umpire, decide to hand over power to the people, which seems to be the most reasonable and pragmatic way out?

Those looking for answers will find the most relevant precedent in modern Australian history. At a time when the law is groping in the dark, clutching at straws, a solid precedent can be the guiding light that can lead the ship of the state to arrive safely in the harbour, without sinking in the dangerously choppy seas. The classic Australian precedent that will be outlined below can be considered to be the answer to the issues surrounding the current Sri Lankan crisis The Australian example can be the most decisive  precedent – more  powerful than any legal provision  – because right now Sri Lanka is running on parallel constitutional lines traversed by Australia in its biggest ever political / constitutional crisis. The parallels are too close to ignore. Sri Lanka is confronted with almost the identical two issues listed above. It is these two constitutional issues that threw Australia into the biggest ever political confrontation between the Right and Left forces.

On November 11, 1975 Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of the Labour Government, who was in command of the Lower House with a safe majority, was heading for a crisis because  he could not get his money supply  bill through the Senate, the upper House, which was in the hands of the conservative Liberal Party, headed by Malcolm Fraser. Christmas was coming round the corner and the public servants and the private contractors could not be paid if he could not get the Right-wing Senate to pass the bill.

Monitoring these events in the background was the CIA. Needless to say, that it was not quite pleased with Whitlam’s Left-wing foreign policy which was not quite acceptable to the larger interests of  America leading the Cold War.. Whitlam boldly broke rank with the Western camp when he refused to be one of the subservient Cold War warriors who  treated China as a pariah of the international community and recognised Communist China. At this time America had gone to the extreme of blocking China’s entry into the UN. To the Western alliance, obsessed with the fear-mongering theory of domino effect”, recognising Communist China was alarming in the ‘70s. Whitlam had also threatened to close down American bases, including the strategic Pine Gap. On top of it all, in 1974 White House sent Marshal Green, the coup master” who engineered the fall of Sukarno in Indonesia, as ambassador to Australia.

Whitlam too blundered and played into the hands of the Right-wing opponents waiting to overthrow his Labour Government with his rather amateurish but inspired Left-leaning politics. Most of all, his government was riddled with financial scandals. His popularity was waning in the electorate. It was against this backdrop that Whitlam went in the morning of November 11 to the residence of the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, who was suspected of having links to the CIA. Earlier Sir.John had joined Association for Cultural Freedom, a right-wing group financed by CIA and conspiracy theorists accused him of being in the pay of CIA.

Whitlam was going to offer the Governor-General a solution to break the deadlock by offering to hold half senate elections hoping to get a majority in the Upper House. But Sir John, who was handpicked by Whitlam, had other ideas. He was going to appoint a Right-wing caretaker government led by the Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser and hold a general election as the way out. It was a classic power struggle within a parliamentary democracy. But how was the Sir. John, the representative of the neutral Queen who had to be consulted, going to resolve the crisis? Could he sack the Prime Minister who was in command of the majority in Parliament? Could he appoint the Leader of the Opposition as the care-taker Prime Minister? Could he declare a general election asking the people to decide the next step? Was he prepared to do a Pontius Pilate and wash his hands off, allowing the rival parties to battle it out? Or was he inclined to play a partisan role favouring the pro-American political leader? In his opinion, the state was corrupt and dysfunctional, lurching from crisis to crisis, unable even to deliver money to pay its functionaries. So did he overstep the democratic and constitutional norms in sacking a prime minister who had a majority in the House? Was he right in handing the final decision to the people and wait for their verdict? Though liberal political passions of the day were bitterly opposed to him did history eventually absolve him for pulling the nation out of the quagmire by handing power to the people to deliver their verdict and make democracy function again?

One of the primary tests of a democracy is when the state honours its moral and political obligation to consult the people periodically, or as and when it is required by law. However, if a state, paralysed by internal tensions and divisions, is heading towards a critical crisis with no end in sight, is it the duty of the head of state to go before the people as the neutral and final authority to deliver a final verdict? If there is a log jam someone must intervene to open up space for the non-violent and natural flow of events for democracy to regain its strength and function with vigour. There can be nothing undemocratic, illegal or immoral about the state consulting the people, the sovereign base from which all democracies derive their power.

This is precisely what happened on November 11, 1975 in Australia. The Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, Labour Party, and handed over power to a caretaker Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, the leader of the biggest party in the Opposition which, in his opinion”, had a chance of winning power in both Houses. If the people’s verdict went against the caretaker Prime Minister then the status quo ante would have returned with the consent of the people.

Of course, there were behind-the-scene manoeuvres that influenced Sir. John to sack the Prime Minister. Sir. John  cut a deal with Fraser to protect his interests in the event of his retiring.. That apart, what is most relevant is the drama that was played publicly on the political stage.  Both political parties agreed that the solution was an election. But they differed on the nature of the next election. Whitlam wanted only a majority in the Senate to get his money bill passed. So he offered half an election for the Senate, hoping the people will give him the majority he needed in the Upper House. Fraser, on the other hand wanted a full election, hoping to overthrow the unpopular Labour government.

Both Whitlam and Fraser were locked in a power struggle and neither was willing to budge. Sir John, rightly or wrongly, stepped in and sacked the Prime Minister and appointed the Leader of the Opposition as the care-taker prime minister. Elections were held and Fraser won. Australia returned to normalcy and stability again.

This, in broad outline, is how Australia came out unscathed from its biggest constitutional crisis. By now discerning readers would have detected sufficient similarities in Australian and the Sri Lankan constitutional crises. An internal crisis was reaching its critical point in Sri Lanka. The President stepped in first to prorogue Parliament and later to sack the Prime Minister and hold elections. Of course, there are some significant differences in details. But, in essence, both constitutional crises find common ground on the central issue: Can the head of a democratic state (the Executive) sack a prime minister who cannot deliver despite his majority in the House (the Legislature)? How is the prime minister going  to make the dysfunctional state, bogged down in  sordid politics, serve the larger interests of the disillusioned people lost without a promising future? Can the prime minister be allowed to impose his arbitrary will, abusing and subverting democratic parliamentary norms blatantly? Besides, the Yahapalanaya government was riddled with scandals of corruption, with more than a nudge-and-a-wink from the Prime Minister. He had taken the corrupt state to an irreversible and dysfunctional point, dropping the nation into a state of permanent crisis. The future seemed bleak.

So can an immoral majority in Parliament be allowed to run a dysfunctional state? Only the steely, incontestable laws of mathematics do not recognise morality. Its immutable numbers has almost a divine force  to act as a dictatorial force which no one can  contest. But how moral is a state run on pure numbers? The morality that underpins good governance should necessarily rise way above the games of numbers which can be manipulated with money. A parliament must be redeemed from corrupt manipulations driven by numbers alone.

The Australian crisis began and ended within one afternoon. Time was of the essence. Any magisterial power must act swiftly to prevent the deterioration  of the crisis into lower depths. Perpetuating paralysed governments will not serve the best interests of Parliament, Presidency, people or the Judiciary. The Australian  example leads the way in this respect too.  Whitlam came back from the Governor-General’s residence and passed a vote of confidence in the House with a majority of ten. But it could not be handed over to the Governor-General in time.  By the time the Speaker was admitted to the residence of Governor-General to convey the House’s message to Sir. John  it was too late. The Speaker was held up at the gate for a long time by the staff of the Governor-General playing for time. In the meantime, Parliament was dissolved. Whitlam was slow to draw. Sir.John fired first shot which hit the target. The proclamation dissolving Parliament was read on the steps of the Parliament by the Secretary to the Governor-General. Elections were held on December 13. The crisis was over and democracy and stability was restored.

Does all this ring a bell?

In the Sri Lankan example, however, the Opposition had time to go to the Supreme Court and obtained a stay order. The deleterious consequences are quite apparent even to a blind man’s dog.

It is in the light of the current state of chaos that the Australian experience provides an unerring sense of direction. Australia has established the precedent of dissolving parliament in time of crises, overriding limitations imposed by law,  and giving the sovereign people the right to decide their future. It has worked effectively. This is where a precedent gains the validity of a  moral force as great as the law. The backbone of the unwritten British Constitution has been the accumulation of pragmatic precedents. Precedents have translated into conventions and parliamentary traditions which, in turn, have  come to rest as the  bedrock of the British Conostitution. It has gathered a force as great, if not greater, than the written law. The time-tested precedents can also provide solutions to vexed issues polarising and destabilising democracies.

The Australian precedent is the best people-oriented and pragmatic solution available to the nation in this hour of need. Our bahu-bootha Constitution” provides clauses / arguments for both contending parties to push their partisan interests with co-equal legal force. Legal eagles are looking up to the Supreme Court to pick one or the other clause that favours their political  interests. Any decision it takes on pure legalities is bound to damage its image. Besides, it will end  up as an exercise in futility as any legal interpretation of a flawed and a highly controversial Constitution will be seen as a partisan and divisive act that will not solve the crisis. Also appointing a lame-duck prime minister who will be powerless to move in any positive direction in the remaining 16 months will only exacerbate the prevailing chaos. The respect and the neutrality of the Supreme Court will be enhanced only if it acknowledges the Australian precedent and cut short the prolonging of the prevailing agony.

The sobering consequences of the Australian precedent has established that, more than the contradictory law, which can be influenced, swayed and re-written by foreign and moneyed forces, it is the people who must be given the right to express their will, within the shortest possible time, to prevent destabilisation and blood baths. In a democracy the right of defining and creating the future lies solely with the people and not with any branch of the state trapped in divisive and destructive politics.

Lord Naseby, a well-meaning friend of Sri Lanka,  had the last  word on this subject. He said  that similar things happens in Western parliaments too. And he added: It can be unusual but not unconstitutional!”.

12 Responses to “The ONLY way out in Sri Lanka”

  1. Nimal Says:

    Having little time these days for me I would recommend a Westminster style Parliament 100PC.Get some consultants from UK to give us some direction. Must be honest with our selves and offer the best for the people of the island and not the best for the thieves who are looting the country.

  2. Naram Says:

    Excellent analysis, the icon of justice is the blind fairy holding the balance of justice. Only the definition of the words matter as in the ‘Merchant of Venice court case the Shylock had to limit himself to flesh ‘not spilling blood’. Today we know dictionaries are revised everyday and we resort to electronic libraries to get the most current definition even when playing scrabble. Similarly Judges of this case would be looking at the whole beyond the text book definitions of words , contradictions between clauses.

    Much talked of 19thamendment to the constitution did not go through a referendum but was approved by the very Parliament currently split down the middle exposing the tectonic fractures in the body politic. Experts from UK can be flown in but at a huge price and then there is no guarantee that they will be more impartial, and chances are that they may favour the old public school cliques as in the old day.
    Some of us still carry memories of the 1962 coup d’tat and the parliament that was dissolved following the no confidence motion in ’64 where one MP could not turn up due to a flat tyre. Following the subsequent election opposition came to power and the appeal to the Privy Council by the Coup suspects was upheld on technical grounds on law; recent formulation that tried them not having retrospective powers.

    Still a commoner would argue that law must not only apply but appear moral, just and universal, equal on the employer or employee, whatever be the social stratum.

    Must add another aspect one lasting benefit of those short lived left leaning Whitlam years to many Sri Lankans residing in Australia – end of the White Australia policy on Immigration.

  3. aloy Says:

    100PC agree with HLDM on the following:

    “Rightly or wrongly, some attribute the prevailing disorder directly to the decision of the Supreme Court which has had a direct impact on rival parties competing for power. Though it is an interim order, without any finality about it, the immediate political consequences has been to exacerbate the polarisation of the opposing parties.”

    And this is exactly what prez thought would happen. Fortunately nobody died, but blood was spilled. It is still not too late for SC to correct the mistake they did. Though they may not have intended those idiots in parliament could not understand the meaning of ‘stay’ order.
    There is a lot at stake: the dominance of Indian ocean by the west. If not I cannot understand why they are so worried as to get speaker to behave in such a partisan manner.

  4. aloy Says:

    I am not an expert on constitution. But I have heard that there is a thing called separation of powers of the thee arms of the system that runs the country. And the SC is there only to give interpretations to constitution and not to give instructions to the executive. What they seem to have done is giving instructions to executive?. Should executive oblige in this case if there is a separation of powers?.

  5. Randeniyage Says:

    Writer is very wrong in comparing 1975 Australian crisis to ours.
    1. Then Australian constitution had given powers ( reserve power) to then Governor General to sack the prime minister and appoint another one, although it was rarely exercised. (Under our current constitution, the President cannot sack the prime minister at all although he is empowered to appoint the PM, subjected to conditions)
    2. If the senate did not pass, it will be a real crisis to the country as there were no funds to run the government. ( In Sir Lanka, no such crisis arose).

    @Aloy,
    In fact SC has that power. Not only that, if the President has intentionally violated the constitution, under article 38(2) (a), upon receipt of a report from SC, parliament can remove the president.
    Although we all celebrate dismissal of Ranil, I think what Sirisena has done is unconstitutions ( although it may not be intentional).

  6. NeelaMahaYoda Says:

    Here we go Randeniya, another expert on constitutional affairs.

    Don’t you think that we should all wait for SC decision on the 7th December.

    You and I are just Engineers, even at our work place we have a legal department to handle legal disputes and we always hand over the legal issue to them for legitimate legal decision.

    Don’t try to follow Sri Lankans, internationally we are much experienced professionals.

  7. Randeniyage Says:

    NMY,
    That was my opinion while we await the decision. To tell you Law is my hobby and that hobby has cost me a lot (time and money) so far although most of my interpretations were correct.

    Not sure whether you have read this, which I saw after my comment above.

    “https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/sacking-rw-appointing-mr-dissolution-of-parliament-are-unconstitutional-prof-suri-ratnapala/”

    I am very much worried about Indian intervention, like in Maldives.

  8. Geeth Says:

    @ Randeniyage,
    Yes, we have so many worries. I also have a very strong feeling that this crisis may be manipulated to justify an external intervention. Treacherous Ranil already has sent invitations to foreign embassies and the UN to intervene into Sri Lankan crisis. Yes, you are correct.

    But does Sri Lanka have any other option? We Sri Lankans have been caught between rock and a hard place. If we safe guard the rules of Westminster system, then Ranil will have a field day to constitutionally divide the nation. Ranil wants to deliver what terrorism couldn’t achieve.

    Can Sri Lanka wait until Ranil destroy the entire nation or should they break the rules and do something to stop him? What is most important for you, the country or the parliamentary system and its rules? Suppose the decision of president to dissolve parliament was unconstitutional. Would you just accept the supreme court decision and do nothing to Stop Ranil? What is your opinion?

  9. Randeniyage Says:

    @Geeth,
    You asked “But does Sri Lanka have any other option? ”
    Undemocratic means is never an option. Do you approve military rule ?
    I think this whole saga is totally unnecessary and stupid mistake same as 2o14 calling of early elections.
    It is just a matter of waiting for another few months.
    MR’s hurry and Sirisena’s greed to become president again destroyed 50% of the advantage MR had.
    Surely there is no urgency to save the country once the opposition is strong with SLFP becoming the opposition.
    It was Sirisena’s greed that divided SLFP and created opportunity to Ranil to destroy the country.
    Still, remarkably thanks to various protests he could not do much damage.
    Did you read the news today ? Bandula says no problem financially next year.
    So what was the hurry ?
    In my opinion, we cannot behave like another North Korea. We cannot survive this way. We are too small and China will never strongly side us militarily. We have to abide by the rules. I am sure a strong opposition can restarin Ranil until his natural political death occurs, even now. No choice, have to back down immediately.

  10. Randeniyage Says:

    Please respond to this LTTE correspondent. Comments are not balanced yet.

    “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=080rgVgY0Jg”

  11. Geeth Says:

    @ Randeniyage,
    You said “I think this whole saga is totally unnecessary and stupid mistake same as 2014 calling of early elections.” “It was Sirisena’s greed that divided SLFP and created opportunity to Ranil to destroy the country.” Yes, I agree.

    But whether it is right or wrong, what has been done is done. The way I approach to this issue is not to play the blame game, because we have no time to do that. Instead I wish all factions to work together to form a formidable force to safeguard the national interests rather than arguing among each other. I always believed in the power of the mass movements rather than constitutional gimmicks. For saying this, please do not think I do not believe in peaceful politics.

    At this moment, one can argue that Sirisena had tricked Mahinda. That might be true, or might be just a proposition. Because I still doubt that Mahinda, as an executive president for two terms, didn’t know the limitations of the post 19th constitution. And also, I think he was well aware of the loopholes of our “Bahubootha vyawasthava” as well.

    I still believe that his strategy was to create a constitutional impassability to stop the tide and play with the time. Because Ranil was moving too fast and MR knew once Ranil got his divisive constitution through the current parliament, which was dominated by minority opposition and UNP and JVP, therefore can assume to be a sure outcome, everything will be very hard to reverse or else, never reversable. Because based on the legal provisions of new constitution, the permanently merged NE province will have the legal cover for a secession from the rest of the country in case the future/next administrations try to reverse the outcome. In the event of such development, the rest is already being prepared by western masters. The west will recognize the new state overnight like the Kosovo scenario. And a foreign military will be stationed there in NE to safeguard them. Kicking off Ranil out of the office constitutionally or unconstitutionally, has stopped a larger disaster.

    Now I hope you can understand why I don’t care about if MR has taken a wrong step due to MR’s hurry and Sirisena’s greed. Because whatever the cause, the result has been a necessary political decision with political urgency.
    I think this is a constitutional rebellion. An essential and obligatory one; we can call it a preemptive assault. If it is not, just let us assume that way.

    By the way, if I answer your other question, if I approve a military rule within above explained context, I know it will shake your heart. So, let me skip that question.
    Thanks Mr. Randeniyage.

  12. Randeniyage Says:

    Geeth,
    Thanks for the opinion.
    The grave situation you mentioned ( merging of North and East) is highly hypothetical and impossible to arise under Ranil ( just one man and millions of opposition). On the other hand Mahinda is very influential ( because of the war victory) and has millions of followers to say yes to whatever he does. Just an example, we didn’t even notice creation of Jassim City endangering our own Wilpattu during his time.
    Mahinda is a great patriot as long as he realizes people power behind him demand that patriotism.
    However, Ranil’s stubborn rule cause numerous other real dangers to the country, some major damages already done, but we can reverse most of them and wait few more months.

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