Man-made constitutional crisis: Personal vendettas should not be allowed to destroy the country

The rift between President Maithripala Sirisena and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe had a long history and is not something that just emerged on 26 October, on which day the former decided to replace the latter. But now a private vendetta has become a national vendetta and perhaps, with the intervention of Sri Lanka’s international partners, a global vendetta as well. This personal vendetta between the President and Wickremesinghe has ruined the economy

President is simply one presiding over an entity of people


 Monday, 19 November 2018 

It all came to surface as the culmination of a personal vendetta between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The country at large knew of it when the President sacked the Prime Minister and appointed his arch enemy, the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his place in the evening of 26 October, according to Indian media, in a hush-hush swearing-in ceremony.

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