A Comment On A Comment On The Campaign To Abolish The Presidential System

Laksiri Fernando 

( October 27, 2014, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) In a recent article titled “A Comment on the Campaign to Abolish the Presidential System” (Sri Lanka Guardian, 24 October 2014), Professor G. H. Peiris has sought to challenge the arguments of the campaigners to abolish the presidential system and argues that the proponents of the campaign “often tend to overlook the circumstances that culminated in the promulgation of a new constitution in 1978.” As he has stated “the main innovative element of which was the introduction of a system of government headed by an executive president elected directly on the basis of an all-island poll.”
A Comment on a Comment on the Campaign to Abolish the Presidential System by Thavam Ratna