SRI LANKA: EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY HAS HUGE CHALLENGES – ANALYSIS

By N. Sathiya Moorthy*-APRIL 22, 2015

With the Sri Lankan Supreme Court’s statutory ‘determination’ that provisions for ‘transfer of power’ at the helm, in the government-proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution, cannot be enforced without a mandated public referendum, the much-maligned and equally abused ‘Executive Presidency’ scheme will stay, at least for now. On the ‘positive side’, especially for the government, the ‘determination’ of the Bench headed by Chief Justice K. Sripavan has kept alive the hopes of early parliamentary polls, promised in President Maithripala Sirisena in his manifesto for the January 8 election.
Sri Lanka Executive Presidency Has Huge Challenges – Analysis by Thavam Ratna