{"id":44239,"date":"2015-05-27T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44239"},"modified":"2015-05-27T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T21:06:05","slug":"good-governance-started-with-bad-precedent-former-cj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/27\/good-governance-started-with-bad-precedent-former-cj\/","title":{"rendered":"Good governance started with bad precedent &#8211; Former CJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Former Chief Justice of Sri Lanka Sarath N. Silva says that good governance cannot be established in a country within just 100 days and that it will never exist under jungle law.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the government elected on January 8 was to implement good governance in 100 days. If good governance can be implemented in 100 days, the world\u2019s political history is an absolute lie, he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v1xzwH28qhc?rel=0\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Good governance cannot be created even within a lifetime,\u201d he said, speaking at an event in Colombo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Silva further said that he regretfully\u201d voted for Maithripala Sirisena who was elected as President on January 08, because he saw the risks. But I am against Mahinda Rajapaksa contesting for the third time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/adaderana.lk\/news_images\/1552961492sarath5.jpg\" alt=\"Good governance started with bad precedent - Former CJ\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He stated that the most important aspect of good governance is for governance existing according to the law. Good governance will never exist under jungle law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Chief Justice said he had asked how the President appointed a Prime Minister when there was already a Prime Minister serving.<\/p>\n<p>He said that as soon as he was sworn in the President had signed a letter sacking the Prime Minster and put that letter inside a file. Only after that was the new Prime Minister appointed.<\/p>\n<p>So, good governance started with setting of a bad precedent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana Former Chief Justice of Sri Lanka Sarath N. Silva says that good governance cannot be established in a country within just 100 days and that it will never exist under jungle law. The theme of the government elected on January 8 was to implement good governance in 100 days. If good governance can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44239","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=44239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}