The Gazette notification on the 19th Amendment to the Constitution has been published today.
Last Sunday the cabinet decided against the complete abolition of the Executive Presidency as promised in the election manifesto, and instead decided to gazette a diluted pruning of Executive Presidential powers.
The decision was taken at the meeting of cabinet ministers this evening with the participation of President Maithripala Sirisena.
Click here ( English) and here (Sinhala) to read the Gazetted Bill
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