{"id":122488,"date":"2022-01-30T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122488"},"modified":"2022-01-30T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:01:53","slug":"should-presidents-term-be-extended-by-two-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/30\/should-presidents-term-be-extended-by-two-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOULD PRESIDENT\u2019S TERM BE EXTENDED BY TWO YEARS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It\nis widely published the view expressed by Ms Diana Gamage in the parliament\nthat the term of the president should be extended by two years and the reason\nfor this change as pointed by Ms Gamage was the COVID-19 pandemic that has been\nlimited the ability of president working to people. This is a critical\nconstitutional issue and I do not know whether there is a constitutional\nprovision to extend the period of the president. The reason given by Ms Gamage\nis shown as a valid point. It is a critical point for the country and lawyers\ncould argue the issue looking at different perspectives. As it recorded, no\ncountry has extended the governing period because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms\nDiana Gamage may have honest intention, but individual intention might not\nagree with the justice system in the country. Ms Diana Gamage wants to\nimplement her idea through the parliament approval of a proposal by\nconfirmation of two-third majority. What is the constitutionality of the way Ms\nGamage expresses and the constitutional provision are more drastic than a\nsimple expression of view? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\npoint raised by Ms Gamage is reasonable and people of the country agree with\nthe view and the point need to consider is the pandemic has been a worldwide\nsituation and has the pandemic reasonably limited the ability of presidents\nworking and the other point is same idea may apply to members of the parliament\ntoo and the point may complicate if the issue goes to the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nis the opinion of the president? President is democratically elected officer\nand the individual view of the president might not be considered by the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nperson expressed the view is also questionable because did she express the view\nto attract opinion of voters and without knowledge of constitutional provision?\nIn other word, was it purposed to attract popularity? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nare the opinion of learned layers of the country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It is widely published the view expressed by Ms Diana Gamage in the parliament that the term of the president should be extended by two years and the reason for this change as pointed by Ms Gamage was the COVID-19 pandemic that has been limited the ability of president working to people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122488","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=122488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}