{"id":82926,"date":"2023-10-18T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=82926"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T00:24:21","slug":"no-moves-on-to-abolish-the-executive-presidency-says-wijedasa-rajapakshescrapping-the-executive-presidency-is-a-complicated-and-difficult-process-there-is-no-way-we-can-do-it-through-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=82926","title":{"rendered":"No Moves on to Abolish the Executive  Presidency says Wijedasa  Rajapakshe;\u201cScrapping the Executive Presidency is a complicated and difficult process. There is no way we can do it through the present Parliament, Justice Minister says."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no moves to scrap the Executive Presidency as it is a difficult task, Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapaksha told Parliament today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScrapping the Executive Presidency is a complicated and difficult process. There is no way we can do it through the present Parliament. It is also an exercise in which the people of this country have to be engaged in,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever we have proposed introducing a new electoral system for electing members to Parliament. Accordingly, we propose to elect 160 members through the &#8216;first past the post&#8217; system and to appoint a certain number of MPs from the National List and the rest through a Proportionate Representative (PR) system. However, some want the number of MPs elected under &#8216;first past the post&#8217; system reduced to 150 while some others want it reduced further to 140. The Government is open for discussions on the matter. People want this change. Therefore, a change is a must,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Minister also said the Judicial Service Commission is conducting a probe on Former Mullaitivu District Judge P. Saravanarajah whom he said had falsely claimed that he has received death threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Judge had not informed anything on death threats to anyone at the Judicial Service Commission,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton82926\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D82926&amp;text=No%20Moves%20on%20to%20Abolish%20the%20Executive%20%20Presidency%20says%20Wijedasa%20%20Rajapakshe%3B%E2%80%9CScrapping%20the%20Executive...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana There are no moves to scrap the Executive Presidency as it is a difficult task, Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapaksha told Parliament today. \u201cScrapping the Executive Presidency is a complicated and difficult process. 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