{"id":86060,"date":"2019-03-03T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T05:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86060"},"modified":"2019-03-03T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T23:14:18","slug":"should-executive-presidency-be-abolished-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/03\/should-executive-presidency-be-abolished-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOULD EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY BE ABOLISHED IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Executive presidency in Sri Lanka has been integrated to the country\u2019s constitutional administration and public has gradually understood the significance of the executive presidency to Sri Lanka\u2019s society despite rhetoric of some political parties to abolish this great institution. It is the symbol of Sri Lanka like the king in history. Mr J.R. Jayewardene introduced the system with a clear understanding of its requirement to the country with long term experience, understanding and possible instability in Sri Lanka\u2019s politics. Mr Jayewardene properly consulted all political parties and ethnic groups of the country before officially introduce the system. Tamil communities highly agreed with the system and the son in law of Mr Chelvanayagam strongly advised Mr Jayawardene to introduce the system considering the instability experience in 1958 emergency.\u00a0 Current TNA Members have no idea about the consultation, some time they were inferior members of the party.<\/p>\n

The stability of Sri Lanka is strongly based and dependent on the executive presidential system, which has highly democratic and conformity with the sovereignty of people. The democratic value and the sovereignty of people have violated by the system of electing members to the parliament in which several members are appointed by the political parties in addition to the elected members by votes of people. The appointment of members to the parliament was abolished in 1972 as it was purely undemocratic practice.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was reintroduced un the election law after i982. The appointment of a Prime Minister to the country could be a person appointed to the parliament who was not elected by votes of people. If so the Prime Minister of the parliament could not be considered as strong reflection of democracy in the country according to the current practice.<\/p>\n

When it deeply considers the pattern of electing members of the parliament it could not be considered that the parliament of Sri Lanka is a democratic institution with the conformity of the sovereignty of people. Many appointed members have no consent of people.\u00a0\u00a0 The best example was that after the 2015 general election political parties appointed members to the parliament who were rejected at the election.\u00a0 Was its democracy or a violation of democratic principles. Why JVP wants to abolish the purely democratic institution of the executive presidency and transfer the democratic institution to the parliament, which has an artificial democracy without the sovereignty of people?<\/p>\n

Since Mr J.R. Jayawardena all presidents elected showed that the executive presidency has been the protector of the sovereignty of people and the most effective institution for the control of corruption, stability and the desire of the age of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 There is no argument that if any one attempts to abolish the executive presidency it is an action against the democracy.<\/p>\n

The supreme court of Sri Lanka well considered the draft bill of the 20th<\/sup> amendment and rejected it with clear examples.\u00a0 Why JVP wants to pursued a bill that was rejected by the supreme court.<\/p>\n

Another vital point that must be considered is if the executive presidency abolishes the associated practices created with 13th<\/sup> amendment to the constitution should be abolished and Do political parties agree with idea? No, it will not.<\/p>\n

Politics in Sri Lanka is a Machiavellian practice than a practice of true democracy.\u00a0 Today most important practice is giving an opportunity to elect representatives to the parliament not blocking elections in the name of democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Executive presidency in Sri Lanka has been integrated to the country\u2019s constitutional administration and public has gradually understood the significance of the executive presidency to Sri Lanka\u2019s society despite rhetoric of some political parties to abolish this great institution. It is the symbol of Sri Lanka like the king in history. Mr […]<\/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-86060","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\/86060","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=86060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}