{"id":43394,"date":"2015-04-25T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T21:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43394"},"modified":"2015-04-25T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T21:41:18","slug":"dangerous-repercussions-of-the-proposed-19th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/25\/dangerous-repercussions-of-the-proposed-19th-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Repercussions of the Proposed 19th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay Deshabandu<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

It is a pool\u2019s paradise in Sri Lanka that we have more than one candidates within a same party contesting for the presidency. Constitution of Sri Lankan Freedom Party clearly allowed this as Mr. Sirisena became the president of Sri Lanka elected by the people for the people.<\/p>\n

President has the power to appoint a prime minister whom he thinks could command the majority of the members of the parliament. But President Sirisena\u2019s appointment to the prime minister\u2019s post was pre-arranged under undisclosed conditions which the people of Sri Lanka have the right to know.<\/p>\n

It is even more ridiculous to see that the President Sirsena and many others forwarding a bogus anti democratic 19th<\/sup> amendment for a parliament debate while majority of its members and people are unaware of the contents of the amendment. The timing is so quick!<\/p>\n

The proposed 19th<\/sup> amendment provides a clear mandate for the president to choose his own boss-the prime minister who may enter the parliament through the backdoor!\u00a0 The prime minister under the new amendment appoints ministers to the cabinet; and, the president has no say in these appointments and must act according to the fancies of an unelected\u00a0\u00a0prime minister.<\/p>\n

What is even more disturbing is the fact that such a power full executive prime minister is not directly elected by the people and for the people. In the future, if the new amendment get approved it will be very possible that any agent in or outside Sri Lanka can bribe a popular person such as a famous actor to be a pawn in securing the kingship, the executive prime minister who can command the Sri Lankans without being elected but becoming a member of the parliament through the backdoor by means of a party list.<\/p>\n

The amendment clearly provides flexibility for a regime change if desired by power full nations such as the West!<\/p>\n

Under the 19th<\/sup> amendment, the back door list method even entitles a member of parliament who is not elected by the people for the people to become a member of the executive council which leaves enough room for persons of undesired elements who follow the most dangerous terrorist LTTE leader Prabhakaran to saw seeds of hate and racism and providing a flatform for seggragation.<\/p>\n

If the 19th<\/sup> amendment gets approved, in addition to all powerful prime minister, it will also make it possible for a person to become a member of the executive council by creating one man\u2019s party having a signboard with a negligible vote base.<\/p>\n

The backdoor list of producing parliament members by a party for a party should be abolished for the 19th<\/sup> amendment to make any sense. In essence, the proposed 19th<\/sup> amendment in its current form is a security threat for the sovereignty of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

I hope that good sense of the members of the parliament would prevail and defeat it at its outset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jay Deshabandu It is a pool\u2019s paradise in Sri Lanka that we have more than one candidates within a same party contesting for the presidency. Constitution of Sri Lankan Freedom Party clearly allowed this as Mr. Sirisena became the president of Sri Lanka elected by the people for the people. President has the power to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jay-deshabandu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43394","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=43394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}