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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Convener of the TUMSJ Saman Ratnapriya on Good and Bad of the Govt.
Convener of the Trade Union Movement for Social Justice (TUMSJ) Saman Ratnapriya.
26/11/2015
What do you think on the progress the Government has made so far?
A: The country’s civil society was instrumental in changing the Executive on 8, January and the Parliament on 17, August. The Leader of the National Movement for Social Justice Venerable Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera was pivotal in this. He is no more. Civil Movements along with political parties supported this issue. They backed this issue with the hope of bringing in political reforms. Some were fulfilled at a very minimum level. Some we could not fulfill. Regarding this, even the late Sobhitha Thera was in a state of disillusion. We too are to a certain extent disappointed. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was brought in order to curtail the powers of the Executive President system. To a certain extent we were able to achieve this yet, not to the expected degree. Independent Commissions were established, but in the Constitutional Council, the Opposition worked towards reducing the numbers of those from the civil society in the composition. There is something positive in the fact that some political reforms took place.
A: The country’s civil society was instrumental in changing the Executive on 8, January and the Parliament on 17, August. The Leader of the National Movement for Social Justice Venerable Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera was pivotal in this. He is no more. Civil Movements along with political parties supported this issue. They backed this issue with the hope of bringing in political reforms. Some were fulfilled at a very minimum level. Some we could not fulfill. Regarding this, even the late Sobhitha Thera was in a state of disillusion. We too are to a certain extent disappointed. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was brought in order to curtail the powers of the Executive President system. To a certain extent we were able to achieve this yet, not to the expected degree. Independent Commissions were established, but in the Constitutional Council, the Opposition worked towards reducing the numbers of those from the civil society in the composition. There is something positive in the fact that some political reforms took place.
