Articles
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“Selection and Election of the Correct Person as the Head of the State”-The BIGGEST challenge before the Sinhala nation at the forthcoming Presidential Election-Part 1
Now thanks devas finally the dates for the Presidential Election 2019 (nominations 7th Oct & Election 16th Nov) have been declared at last by the Election Commission after so much of uncertainty and speculations, the biggest challenge before the Sinhala..
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Questions to Ask ADVOCATA on Millennium Challenge Corporation
(Courtesy of LankaWeb) By Shenali D Waduge A growing number of citizens are becoming aware of the dangers to Sri Lanka’s sovereignty as a result of the MCC proposal together with SOFA & ACSA. They view this as unnecessarily putting Sri..
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EASTER SUNDAY BOMB BLAST IN SRI LANKA Part 12
By Kamalika Pieris Those who planned the Easter bomb explosions used two methods of attack, suicide, and truck. The suicide attacks are well known, but not the truck attack. The truck attack was planned for Kochchikade. The van was..
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EASTER SUNDAY BOMB BLAST IN SRI LANKA Part 11
By Kamalika Pieris Indian Intelligence Agency sent an alert on April 8, 2019, warning of a terror attack. Sunday Times of 21 July 2019 published the text of this alert. The text said: Sri Lanka based Zahran Hashmi (sic) of National..
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Sri Lanka’s President: Can a dream candidate create a dream Parliament and a dream system?
By Shenali D Waduge Its best that we all come to terms with some hard facts – there is no perfect system, there is no perfect constitution, there is no perfect Parliament and there is certainly no perfect politician. There..
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How ‘Civil’ or ‘Representative’ is Sri Lanka’s supposed to be ‘Civil Society’
They call themselves ‘civil society’ but how representative are they? Note how connected they all are and how they continue to open new ‘social movements’ with sugar-coated objectives… most have been around for decades but what exactly have they done…
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17th and 18th Amendments Four decades of constitutional folly and failure – 4
By C. A. Chandraprema (Courtesy of The Island) The idea that key appointments in the state should not be made by elected people’s representatives but by a panel of unelected, wise, politically uninvolved men..
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Playing ducks and drakes with electoral system Four decades of constitutional folly and failure – 3
By C.A.Chandraprema (Courtesy of The Island) The electoral system as regards Parliament originally laid out in the 1978 Constitution was very different to what we have today. Before the Fourteenth Amendment, there were to..
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13A: SL never got what India has Four decades of constitutional folly and failure – 2
By C. A. Chandraprema (Courtesy of The Island) President J. R. Jayewardene and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi after signing the Indo-Lanka Accord, which paved the way for the provincial council system…
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Powers of President under 19A
By Neville Ladduwahetty (Courtesy of The Island) According to a media report, the former President, Mahinda Rajapaksa speaking during the adjournment debate on a new Constitution is reported to have stated: ‘this country could not move forward without..
