Call for US style methodology for electing future presidents in SL
Sri Lanka, July 9 -- Constitutional reforms featured prominently in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in 2015. And it remains the
same this time around. But, there is a stark difference between the push for such reforms then and now. In 2015, the United National Party (UNP) which was riding the wave of popular votes sought a mandate for greater devolution of power to the periphery. Today, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), which has already won the presidential elections, is seeking a two-thirds majority in Parliament, primarily to undo the 19th Amendment to the Constitution enacted during the Yahapalana government in 2015.
Alongside, Yuthukama organization, a nationalist movement that laid the ideological base for the election...
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