{"id":83356,"date":"2018-11-17T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83356"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:07:22","slug":"sri-lanka-needs-a-free-and-fair-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/17\/sri-lanka-needs-a-free-and-fair-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA NEEDS A FREE AND FAIR GENERAL ELECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Newspapers and other media in Sri Lanka clearly express that the country needs a free and fair general election with a view to relieve from the current political crisis and more than three forth of the population also show that a free and fair general election is the solution and there are no alternatives for an election. The other significant opinion of the population is that the country should not align with the opinion of the foreign forces, which should allow the country to deal with own problems without unnecessary influences or forces.\u00a0 The reality is that constitutional authority regarding the appointment of a prime minister and ministers to the cabinet is the authority of the president and the speaker of the parliament has no authority to undermine the power of the president in terms of the constitution.<\/p>\n

The behaviour of the speaker of the parliament clearly displayed that he has violated his role disrespecting the order and the rule of the house.\u00a0 The speaker has clearly violated his role and responsibilities.\u00a0 It also seems that he has aligned with the outside forces that is contrary to the wishes of the people of the country. What is the use of this type of a speaker?\u00a0 If this type of behaviour is continuing the problem will be continued.\u00a0 The best option to the speaker is to resign from the position and allow to appoint an impartial speaker to the parliament until a general election be completed and appoint a new government and a speaker.<\/p>\n

The problem began in 2015 and the 19th<\/sup> amendment to the constitution created problems complicating the constitution and the amendment supported to create an instability in the country. Now it is quite clear that after a fresh fair and free election, new government must abolish the 19th<\/sup> amendment and thoroughly review the constitution and amend with strong clauses.\u00a0 Sri Lanka has experts for this purpose and they need to listen to the community.\u00a0 Sri Lanka doesn\u2019t need to listen outside forces, which have different interests than the interests of the people of the country.<\/p>\n

The current crisis in the country clearly indicated that the executive presidency is highly advantageous to the country where needs a strong command than a collective authority.\u00a0 The president must have a council of advisors with a variety of ideology.\u00a0 The president needs to consider such advised but not strongly obliged to follow them but always need to consider the national interest than any other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Newspapers and other media in Sri Lanka clearly express that the country needs a free and fair general election with a view to relieve from the current political crisis and more than three forth of the population also show that a free and fair general election is the solution and there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83356","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=83356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}