Sri Lanka, Sept. 14 -- In a democratic country, people believe that laws of the people shall be made by themselves and nobody else. That power is delegated to their representatives elected through the electoral process in the modern representative democracy.

Universal franchise and the free exercise of the vote are necessary prerequisites of democracy. In a democratic system like others, legislative body - Parliament which represents the sovereign people and therefore and it is competent to express the will of the people in the form of law. Parliament is a representative assembly. The electoral process is the essential mechanism of representation. With the evolevation of representative democratic government with the emergence of party sy...