Danger of losing C’wealth chair if presidential 

election is corrupt!

 Thursday, 11 December 2014 

Several member nations of the Commonwealth are preparing to bring in a proposal to abolish Mahinda Rajapaksa’s chairmanship of the grouping if the January 08 presidential election is a corrupt one, according to reports reaching ‘Lanka News Web’ through a very reliable source.

Since the removal of Dr. Chris Nonis as the Sri Lankan high commissioner in the UK, coordination between the president and the C’wealth headquarters in the UK has come to a standstill, as Dr. Nonis was also the person who had done the coordination work.

Knowing this well, the president is keeping the high commissioner position vacant. The Sajin Vaas, Kshenuka and G.L. Peiris trio is having fears that Dr. Nonis would be reappointed to the position, and they are doing everything they can to prevent that from happenning. Recently, a very close associate of the president asked Dr. Nonis if he was willing to consider if he is offered the position again. Dr. Nonis has point-blank rejected it. However, sources say the president and Dr. Nonis have telephone conversations every week or so.

If the election is proved to be corrupt and the C’wealth brings a proposal to remove him from its chair, the president would find it difficult to find a capable person like Dr. Nonis to act appropriately. In light of the possible alternatives such as Dr. Rajiva Wijesinha, Dr. Thamara Kunanayagam, Dr. Dayan Jayatilake all supporting common candidate Maithripala Sirisena, the president would be in a very tight position, say international political analysts.