{"id":67725,"date":"2017-07-10T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67725"},"modified":"2017-07-10T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:57:54","slug":"sri-lankan-president-strikes-an-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/10\/sri-lankan-president-strikes-an-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan President strikes an attitude."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirsena really assumed a theatrical role when he became a critic of the Police Department and the Attorney General\u2019s Department for \u2018wasting\u2019 time\u201d in nabbing the political opponents. One wonders whether he is interested in increasing his power base by this populist remarks when he is the constitutional head of the executive arm of the country and the head of a major political party, a constituent of the present government.<\/p>\n<p>When Sri Lankan government has become almost non-functional in many aspects, the President and the other elected representatives including the Prime Minister have to be responsible to the ordinary masses for the unenviable repercussions. It is very easy to indulge in the blame game and to offer excuses. But, the end result is nauseating.<\/p>\n<p>If the Police and the Attorney General\u2019s department have failed to deliver the desired results even after exerting obvious political pressure by way of appointments made et. It is up to the Government to discuss, strengthen and streamline these organizations -without involving politically-to work efficiently. By spreading populist views the President and the Government will only render more damage to the confidence of the honest employees of the said organizations which are under the Ministers who are responsible to the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>If on the other hand, the President\u2019s intentions are to bring the Police and the AG under the Executive to catch hold of the political adversaries to save his family as stated by the President it will \u00a0spell disaster to the rule of law associated with the system of Government of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirsena really assumed a theatrical role when he became a critic of the Police Department and the Attorney General\u2019s Department for \u2018wasting\u2019 time\u201d in nabbing the political opponents. One wonders whether he is interested in increasing his power base by this populist remarks when he is the constitutional head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-politics","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67725","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=67725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}