Day: 13 April 2015

Lanka News Web on Sunday, 12 April 2015 05:26 Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has taken a totally different view from other Sri Lankan politicians who are expressing displeasure and condemnation over the now controversial interview ‘Sri Lanka Mirror’ has carried with former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. This should be an eye opener for all those who are interested in Sri Lankan politics. On one hand it is heartening to note that Democratic Party leader Fonseka has called his personal secretary Senaka Haripriya Silva and praised him for offering to give…

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National Govt. on the rocks as 19A hangs over dissolution of House Sirisena, Ranil struggling for good governance with backs to the wall Police grill Alles on alleged provision of Rs. 800m to LTTE 19A: The good, the bad and the unknown Even if we give the most compassionate rendering of the extraordinary sequence of events that served as constitution-making by the Wickremesinghe government during recent weeks, there is much to be perturbed about. Secrecy to be deplored However let me follow this up by acknowledging that even the necessity…

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It’s an inauspicious number.  That’s ‘13’.  The Maithripala-Ranil Regime (or Ranil-Maithripala Regime if you will) is in its 13th week.  It’s the worst so far for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the United National Party (UNP). First, a proposal for obtaining 400 billion rupees through Treasury Bills was defeated in Parliament. According to some constitutional experts the defeat of this kind of ordinance amounts to a no-confidence motion.  Tradition, thankfully for Ranil and the UNP, is (conveniently) not the strongest suit of our Parliamentarians.  Fortunately too, the Sri Lanka Freedom…

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As the Maithripala Sirisena government’s self-imposed deadline of April 23 nears, both the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) are flexing their political muscles as they vie for power at the general elections that could be called as in two weeks’ time. The SLFP is insisting that it would support the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that seeks to prune the powers of the Executive Presidency only if electoral reforms aimed at combining the first past the post (FPP) system with the proportional representation (PR)…

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COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka would have returned to a parliamentary system of government from April 22 if not for the Supreme Court striking down the 19th amendment which was drafted in line with President Maithripala Sirisena’s election manifesto. The Supreme Court effectively shot down all proposed provisions to reduce the powers of the president and left only a few minor reforms such as the reduction of the presidential and parliamentary terms to five years from the previous six. However, those reforms will apply from the next elections and there…

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