by Rajan Philips0-October 11, 2014,
It is fair to say that abolishing the executive presidency was not a high priority for the voters in Uva. If at all the question would have been the farthest from their minds. As was famously said by a Canadian politician in a different context, people do not think about the constitution while waiting in bus queues. In 1970 and in 1977, the voters hardly paid attention to the constitutional changes that were on the agenda when they massively voted in governments that went on to overhaul the constitutional system first in 1972, and again in 1978, in diametrically opposite ways.
