Amend constitution. Share powers. Tamil Alliance urge
The constitution act of executive presidential system which accrues all powers to an individual should be eradicated or amended. Through the new constitution act, powers should be shared to everyone without ethnic or religious discrimination and all should live with equal rights.
Thursday , 17 January 2013
The constitution act of executive presidential system which accrues all powers to an individual should be eradicated or amended. Through the new constitution act, powers should be shared to everyone without ethnic or religious discrimination and all should live with equal rights.
Such request was made yesterday by Tamil National Alliance parliament member M.A.Sumenthiran on his participation at the media briefing organized by the "Sharing powers and unite the country" movement held at Colombo Azath Saali center.
He said after the actions got concluded in removing the former Chief Justice, Speaker made a suggestion. "It was very difficult in the past, hence the present constitution act should be removed”, was the entreaty made by him. We support to his request was said by Sumenthiran.
Speaker explained by his own words how this post removal activity occurred. His statement established that this action was not processed in the proper manner which we felt it.
All the powers are hoarded to an individual who is the Executive President which should be amended. Concerning this the present constitution act should be changed or eradicated.
Through the new constitution, according to our objective, powers should be shared to everyone. Without race, religion bigotry equal rights should be granted to everyone and powers should be shared in the manner that all could utilize the state powers was mentioned by him.
By Colombo Telegraph -
Parliament Has No Unlimited Sovereignty – Scotland’s First Minister
By Colombo Telegraph -
“Our tradition states that the people of Scotland are sovereign and that they have the power to determine the form of government best suited to their needs. It stands in contrast to the UK principle that parliament has unlimited sovereignty.” says the Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond.
Alex Salmond
Talking about upcoming referendum on Scottish independence he said; “That UK tradition is one of the reasons that the UK has no written constitution. That makes the UK highly unusual among Western democracies, and unique within the European Union. That deficiency is a democratic deficit that an independent Scotland should not repeat.”
“We will make it one of the first duties of the parliament of an independent Scotland to establish a convention to draw up that written constitution. And we will return to our older constitutional tradition of the people’s sovereignty, by making sure the people are directly involved in that process.” he further said.
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