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Sunday, January 29th, 2023
Mahinda Gunasekera His Exellency, Mr. Ranil WickremasinghePresident of Sri LankaColombo, Sri Lanka Copy to: Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ” ” Hon. Dr. Wijedasa Rajapashe, Minister of Justice, Sri Lanka Your Excellency, Proposal to Fully Implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution I would like to refer you to the inception […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed the Cabinet’s willingness to the full implementation of the 13th Amendment. Speaking at the all-party conference held yesterday (26 Jan.), Wickremesinghe stated that the Cabinet was agreeable to fully implementing the 13th Amendment, unless it is decided by the Party Leaders as to whether or not the Amendment […]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2023
Sugath Kulatunga India is using the carrot and the stick formula to insist on the pound of flesh of the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution. Big brother turned good samaritan has again raised their persistent demand for the full Implementation of the 13th Amendment. It is noted that India does not now invoke […]
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
Mahinda Gunasekera Federal vs Unitary: Broadly speaking, most are fully in favour of retaining a Unitary Structure of governance as opposed to a Federal, Quasi-Federal based on the Indian model, or other multi-level structure where powers need to be devolved to the semi-autonomous units that are to be set-up for various regions within the tiny […]
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island President Wickremesinghe speaking with Dharmalingham Siddarthan, Angajan Ramanathan, M. A. Sumanthiran and R. Sampanthan (seated) at the All Party Conference (pic courtesy PMD) Environment Minister Nazeer Ahamed told an all-party conference chaired by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, at the Presidential Secretariat, on Tuesday (13), that the Muslims were opposed to […]
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Friday, October 21st, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The third reading of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution has been passed in Parliament by a majority of 173 votes. Announcing the result of the vote on the third reading of the bill, the Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena informed the House that 174 had voted in favour of the bill […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Lanka Lead News මෙරට යුද විරුවන්ට ජාත්යන්තරය විසින් එල්ල කර තිබෙන යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා නිසා වෙනත් රටකදී නඩු පැවරීමට ඇති තර්ජනය පහව යන්නේ රුසියානු, යුක්රේන නේටෝ සටනින් රුසියාව ජයගතහොත් පමණක් බව ගෝලීය ශ්රී ලාංකික සංසදයේ විධායක කමිටු ලේකම් යසස් ධර්මදාස මහතා පවසයි. පසුගිය කාලයේ සිදුවූ ඊනියා අරගලයේ දී හමුදා නායකත්වය විධායකයේ අණ ක්රියාත්මක නොකර හිටියේ […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has reportedly informed the President during a discussion held today (Oct 19) that It cannot support the proposed 22nd Constitutional Amendment Bill which is scheduled to be debated in parliament tomorrow (Oct 20). However, the president has requested to vote in favor of the 22nd amendment in the […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම Lanka Lead News දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්යාපාරය විසින් නිකුත් කළ පත්රිකාවක් මගින් විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂලා ව්යවස්ථා මගෝඩියකින් 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය බලාත්මක කරනු ඇති බවට ඔවුන් විසින් එල්ල කරනු ලබන චෝදනාවලට හේතු දක්වා ඇත. තම සංවිධානය එසේ සැක කරන්නේ කුමක් නිසාදැයි ඔවුන් හේතු 14ක් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. මහා සංඝනායක හිමිවරුන් ප්රමුඛ මහා සංඝරත්නයට ඊනියා අරගලකරුවන් විසින් […]
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
Lanka Lead News ඊයේ පැවැති පාර්ලිමේන්තු කණ්ඩායම් රැස්වීමට සහභාගි වූ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා අදහස් දක්වමින් 22 වැනි ව්යවසථා සංශෝධනය තුළින් 13 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන ප්රතිපාදන ඇතුළු කිරීමට තිබෙන ඉඩ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැඩි ලෙස කරුණු දක්වා ඇති බව වාර්තාවේ. ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා මාධ්ය වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින්, ඊයේ පැවැති පාර්ලිමේන්තු කණ්ඩායම් රැස්වීමේදී 22 වැනි […]
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Fresh hurdles have emerged in the way of the enactment of 22nd Amendment to the Constitution after Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) which commands the majority support in Parliament objected to it in its present form, Daily Mirror learns . The bill which is listed for debate in Parliament today and […]
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, Minister of Justice says that while adhering to the proposed revisions in the determination by the Supreme Court, they will proceed to enact the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution avoiding a referendum.
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene announcing the Supreme Court determination on the 22nd Amendment stated that certain clauses of the Bill are inconsistent with the Constitution and should be revised or could be passed with a special majority and a referendum.
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Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Lanka Lead News විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ගෙනඑන ලබන ව්යවස්ථා මගෝඩියට මේ රටේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරු ගොදුරු නොවිය යුතු බවත් එසේ වුවහොත් මෙරටේ ජනතාව මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගේ කාර්යභාරය භෞතික වශයෙන් අවසන් කිරීමට කටයුතු කරනු ඇති බවත් වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා සදහන් කළේය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිදුවූ ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන මගෝඩි පිළිබඳව සහ විශේෂයෙන්ම විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයා ලෙස සිදු […]
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Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Nine petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, Ada Derana reporter said. The relevant petitions were filed by nine citizens including the Secretary to the ‘Vinivida Peramuna’, Attorney-at-Law Nagananda Kodituwakku and Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekara. The Attorney General has been named as the respondent in the […]
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Monday, August 1st, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The draft of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, the Justice Ministry said. The draft constitutional amendment was presented to the Cabinet by Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms, Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and subsequently approved by the Cabinet. The amendment, which had been […]
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was presented to establish political stability in the country which is requested by most of the international agencies assisting Sri Lanka, Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs & Constitutional Reforms Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe says. His views came in the backdrop where SLFP chairman Maithripala Sirisena criticized the 22nd constitutional […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers have approved the proposal to gazette the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution and to present it to the Parliament, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said. The amendment, which had been referred to as the 21st Amendment so far, will in fact be the 22nd Amendment, as another draft 21st Amendment […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Intervention made by lawyer and fiscal officer in Aeroflot affair extraordinary. Justice, Prison Affairs, Constitutional Reforms Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa, PC, has warned that the abolition of the Executive Presidency hastily, will plunge the country into anarchy. The SLPP Colombo District MP said that as the Executive Presidential system […]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) (අවශ්ය වන්නේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ජනතාව විසින් තෝරා නොගැනීමට ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන ගෙන ඒම නොව ජනතාව විසින් තෝරා ගන්නා ජනාධිපති ජනතාවට වගකිව යුතු තැනට ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් ගෙන ඒම බව මෙම කෙටි ලිපියෙන් පෙන්වා දී ඇත) විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයාව ජනතාව විසින් තෝරා පත් කරගත්තද, ජනතාවට ජනාධිපති සමඟ නීත්යානුකූලව සම්බන්ධ වීමට ඇත්තේ එකම […]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
මුහුණු පොතෙන් 21 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට සහාය ලබාගැනීම සඳහා ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයේදී අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවති රැස්වීමේදී ගරු අධිකරණ, බන්ධනාගාර කටයුතු සහ ව්යවස්ථාපිත ප්රතිසංස්කරණ අමාත්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා විසින් 21 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කෙටි හැඳින්වීමක් කළ අතර, අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාද පවසා සිටියේ ඊට තමාද එකඟ වන බව සහ එයට සහාය ලබාදෙන ලෙසය. මේ අවස්ථාවේදී නැගී සිටි […]
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) (Let us bring in a constitutional amendment to introduce “People’s Bills” and protect the legislative power of the people by 1% of the population in a district.) යම් දිස්ත්රික්කයක ජනතාව 1% අත්සන් කර යම් කරුණකට, ඉල්ලීමට අදාලව නීතියක් පනවන ලෙස අදාල දිස්ත්රික්කයේ මන්ත්රීවරයෙකු මගින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට යෝජනාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කර […]
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Thursday, May 26th, 2022
Malinda Seneviratne There are certain rules of thumb with regard to constitutional reform. First, such exercises should never be predicated on political expediency. In other words, one’s allegiance or otherwise to the immediate beneficiary, beneficiaries or political party/coalition should not be a factor in offering support or objecting, respectively. Secondly, one’s allegiance or otherwise to […]
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Today the country is in bane with many crises, as a result of concentrating power around the Executive, says Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Eran Wickramaratne. He said the proposed 21st Amendment to the Constitution by the government, which appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister, gives the President the power to keep under […]
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Monday, May 23rd, 2022
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 23: The Sri Lankan cabinet, which met here on Monday, discussed a draft 21 st. Amendment of the constitution meant to reduce the powers of the Executive President and increase the powers of the parliament on the pattern of the repealed 19 th.Amendment. The Prime Minister’s office said in […]
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
Courtesy The TelegraphOnLine 21st Amendment to the Constitution to be referred to the cabinet for approval on Monday. Sri Lanka’s minister of justice has said that the 21st Amendment to the Constitution will be referred to the cabinet for approval on Monday, a media report said on Sunday, paving the way to curb the unfettered […]
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Monday, May 16th, 2022
National Joint Committee The SJB has proposed an amendment to the Constitution to abolish the Executive Presidential system without changing the current electoral system or repealing the 13th Amendment. The Bar Association proposal to abolish the Executive Presidential System is on similar lines. The Need to Change the Electoral System. The proportional representation system was […]
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Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News පෞද්ගලික මන්ත්රී යෝජනා ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති 21 වන සහ 22 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත් ඇතුළත් ගැසට් අතිරේකයක් නිකුත් කර තිබෙනවා. ඒ සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මහලේකම් මන්ත්රී රංජිත් මද්දුම බණ්ඩාර සහ ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ ආචාර්ය විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ යන අය විසින්. මෙම පනත් ප්රකාශය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම පිණිසයි නිකුත් කර ඇත්තේ. ඒ […]
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Monday, April 25th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to introduce the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, based on the positive features of the 19th and 20th amendments. Meanwhile a sub-committee has been appointed to carry out further action with regard to the proposed 21st constitutional amendment. Earlier today, the committee report on […]
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Saturday, February 19th, 2022
Jayantha: Liyanage – General Secretary – SJP The proposed new Constitution must restore the historical national rights of the Sinhala nation lost in the year 1815 by taking the following aspects into consideration. (01). The New Constitution must be named as THE SINHALA CONSTITUTION”. The name of the nation must be named as SINHALA NATION” […]
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