{"id":103042,"date":"2020-05-31T22:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103042"},"modified":"2020-05-31T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T22:43:58","slug":"election-commission-and-its-role-to-hold-elections-or-not-to-hold-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/31\/election-commission-and-its-role-to-hold-elections-or-not-to-hold-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION  COMMISSION AND  ITS ROLE \u2013 TO HOLD ELECTIONS OR NOT TO HOLD ELECTIONS"},"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>As\nPrime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse said holding of the elections is the duty of\nthe Elections Commission.&nbsp;&nbsp; Has it discharged its constitutional\nobligations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\nthe past four and half years, it failed to conduct several elections at lower\nlevel &nbsp;of democratic governance structure.&nbsp; It had various reasons,\nsome of the reasons were due to so called delimitation &nbsp;issues.&nbsp; But\nprevious government and the TNA successfully&nbsp; combined together to somehow\ninfluence the EC to succumb to postponing elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nPresident dissolved the Parliament on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> March, 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nThe 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of June, 2020 is not far away.&nbsp; The&nbsp; Supreme Court\nis still going through the petitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These\nare interesting issues for Law Students as well as Legal Practitioners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nthe EC had conducted the Elections as it was scheduled to be held on May 27,\n&nbsp;by now we have a new parliament.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On\nCovid19,&nbsp; Sri Lanka had 10 deaths, less than 1%, compares very favourably\nwith world standards.&nbsp; Our health system is likely to attract\ninternational attention for an excellent workmanship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On\nthe other hand our Elections Commission is likely to attract international\nattention for an not so excellent workmanship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interesting\ndays are ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE As Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse said holding of the elections is the duty of the Elections Commission.&nbsp;&nbsp; Has it discharged its constitutional obligations? For the past four and half years, it failed to conduct several elections at lower level &nbsp;of democratic governance structure.&nbsp; It had various reasons, some of 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-103042","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\/103042","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=103042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}