No ‘Saviours’ for Sri Lanka, this fiftieth year of the republic View(s):The Sri Lankan political establishment’s ‘dirty tricks’ department seems to be in full swing as the nation is presented with a dizzying array of constitutional amendments, variously titled ’21st Amendment’, ‘21A’, ’21B’, ‘22A’ and so forth. This looks at resuscitating the yahapalanaya’ inspired 19th Amendment with some devious twists. It disregards even the minimum balance of the 19th Amendment with the President being enabled to hold ministerial portfolios. That ridicule emphasizes that this undermines the ‘Aragalaya’s call for ‘system reforms’ and for ‘Gota to Go.’Was Sri Lanka ever a true Republic? All this is precisely why the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was doomed at the very point that it was born.

Source: Sunday Times June 05, 2022 23:31 UTC