{"id":84154,"date":"2018-12-15T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T06:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84154"},"modified":"2018-12-14T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T00:05:20","slug":"the-supreme-court-judgement-on-the-dissolution-of-the-parliament-and-the-political-trends-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/15\/the-supreme-court-judgement-on-the-dissolution-of-the-parliament-and-the-political-trends-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT ON THE DISSOLUTION OF THE PARLIAMENT AND THE POLITICAL TRENDS IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The dissolution of parliament by a gazette notification of the president was not in terms of the constitution, was determined by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka When carefully reading two judgements it is quite clear that judges decided purely based on the literal meaning the clauses of the constitution and they have not considered any other points in addition to the literal meaning.\u00a0 According to judgements of the courts in the world we can see that various factors are considered by the courts making judgment, but they are not relevant to this judgment and all parties in Sri Lanka accepted the decision.<\/p>\n

Many weaknesses of the constitution of Sri Lanka have identified and some of them are discussed in political and non-political platforms. Resolving such problems should be done by a future government as the current political parties in the parliament have no mandate to do it.<\/p>\n

Politicians, academics, public and interested parties in Sri Lanka or overseas need to understand some significant points which affect Sri Lanka\u2019s politics.\u00a0 The major point is the demographic changes in the country and the impact of such changes to politics in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The census report of Sri Lanka in 2012 indicate that the population of Sri Lanka consist of 74.90% Sinhala, 15.27% Tamil, 9.30%% Muslim and 0.19% are others. These statistics strongly confirm that Sinhala people of Sri Lanka has the supreme power in politics and if they are united, no domestic or outside force could defeat the political unity of Sri Lanka and they will decide the political power of the country.\u00a0 The next important point is that same census report indicates that the population of Sri Lanka comprise of 70.10% are Buddhists, 12.58% are Hindus, 9.66% are Muslim, 7.62%, Christian, and 0.03% are others most probably they might be secular people or other religion like Bahai faith or without belonging to any religious community.<\/p>\n

These statistics further confirm that the political power of the country is with Sinhala Buddhists and if any political party goes against the wishes of Sinhala Buddhist community, such political party could be survived in the country.<\/p>\n

The unity of Sinhala people is the most significant factor to defeat any forces against Sri Lanka and the next census, which is due in 2022 will show further different result that the population of Sri Lanka will be consisted of 80% Sinhala and the Tamil population will be declined to less than 10% and more than 75% of the population will be Sinhala Buddhist giving absolute power in politics to Sinhala Buddhist.\u00a0 The unity of Sinhala Buddhist will determine the political power of the country. In Sri Lanka, there is a higher trend to reducing Tamil population as they are massively migrating to other countries and many Tamil women marry with Sinhala male and integrate to Sinhala population. Current Tamil can do nothing to change this trend.<\/p>\n

However, the majority of Sinhala Buddhists have divided according to political parties and if this situation changes, foreign forces must listen to Sinhala Buddhist first.<\/p>\n

The other vital point is that with a less than 10% of population, Tamil in Sri Lanka needs to learn how to live with Sinhala people.\u00a0 In Western countries such as UK, USA, France, Germany, Australia and others do not ready change their constitution because less than 10% of population from other countries. The governments of those countries have passed anti-discrimination legislation and all need to integrate with majority of population.<\/p>\n

Working against this truth is a self casuistically work. Tamil politicians in Sri Lanka attempt to manipulate many things against Sinhala majority and some edacious Sinhala politicians, civil society people have caught to Tamil propaganda and vicious actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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