{"id":101968,"date":"2020-05-05T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101968"},"modified":"2020-05-05T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:17:59","slug":"one-man-show-lot-better-than-225-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/05\/one-man-show-lot-better-than-225-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE  MAN SHOW LOT BETTER THAN 225 CARNIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Prior to the Presidential election, there were two main arguments, viz. \u00a01. Abolition of Executive Presidency and 2. After 19A, the role of the Executive Presidency has no powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abolition of EP is now a lost cause.\u00a0 In fact, the emerging facts and the ground support rallying around the EP, the incumbent Gotabaya Rajapakse is taking the nation towards the next level.\u00a0\u00a0 Unlike in the past, Gota\u2019s photos are not displayed on the walls of government departments and state corporations.\u00a0 He does not address the nation or issues special announcements on a daily basis.\u00a0 The key element of a Leader is the ability to delegate. President Gotabaya is a clever delegator and he selects the Right Person for the Right Job at the Right Time and put in \u00a0Right Place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corona came in as a shock for the nation.\u00a0 The opposition gave no support to handle the situation.\u00a0 But President Gotabaya stamped his authority over the local political enemies and anti-Sri Lankan international forces to establish him as Leader of the nation, without the support of the Parliament. \u00a0\u00a0Mr. Jayayampathy Wickremaratne, a national list MP and a dual citizenship holder<strong> attempted to ruin the country with Ranil and foreigners.\u00a0 He failed. He is now hiding in Switzerland, the country that attempted to destroy the image of President Gotabaya by using Siriyalatha alias Gania Banister.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nsecond argument that the 19A reduced the powers of the EP was a valid argument\nfor those who narrowly looked at 19A ignoring the Powers of EP&nbsp;\nincorporated in the constitution.&nbsp; In addition, <strong>the way in which former\nPresident Sirisena conducted his affairs eroded the role of EP to the level of\na street urchin<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely, <strong>we need to reduce or reallocate the powers of the Speaker, Election Commission, IGP, and Parliament,<\/strong> going forward.\u00a0 This will be discussed in a future article.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For now, with or without \u00a019A, President Gotabaya is capable of delivering the goods.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Prior to the Presidential election, there were two main arguments, viz. \u00a01. Abolition of Executive Presidency and 2. After 19A, the role of the Executive Presidency has no powers. The abolition of EP is now a lost cause.\u00a0 In fact, the emerging facts and the ground support rallying around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}