{"id":143058,"date":"2015-04-20T01:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=143058"},"modified":"2015-04-20T01:52:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T20:22:39","slug":"slfp-has-a-special-role-to-play-in-adopting-19a-lawyers-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/slfp-has-a-special-role-to-play-in-adopting-19a-lawyers-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"SLFP Has A Special Role To Play In Adopting 19A: Lawyers For Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The SLFP has a special role to play in adopting the 19th amendment for many reasons among which is the fact that it has been throughout opposed to the executive presidential system and that President Maithripala Sirisena is the President of the party.&#8221; the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lawyers+for+Democracy&amp;x=7&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lawyers for Democracy<\/span><\/a>\u2019 said today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lawyers-collective.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Lawyers-collective.jpg\" alt=\"Lawyers collective\" width=\"298\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>Issuing a statement on the 19th amendment the \u2018Lawyers for Democracy\u2019 (LFD) has today called upon all the members of Parliament to support the 19th amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We consider it the duty of all political parties in Parliament to support the passage of the 19th amendment through Parliament and to see that the constitutional council is made to function and to see that the independent commissions are set in place.&#8221; the LFD has said.<\/p>\n<p>We publish below the statement in full;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lawyers for Democracy\u2019 was in the forefront of the agitation for the abolition of the executive presidential system and of vesting executive powers in a cabinet of ministers headed by the Prime Minister responsible to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The main promise at the presidential election campaign of President Maithripala Sirisena was the abolition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Executive+Presidency&amp;x=16&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">executive presidential system<\/span><\/a> and restoration of parliamentary form of government with executive powers vested in the Cabinet responsible to Parliament. This move is spelt out as the first step towards the restoration of good governance which implies rule of law, independence of the judiciary and respect of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The repeal of the provisions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=18th+amendment&amp;x=15&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">18<sup>th<\/sup> amendment<\/span><\/a> and the re introduction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=17th+Amendment&amp;x=12&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">17<sup>th<\/sup> amendment<\/span><\/a> was given wide publicity. In fact the focus at the election campaign was on democratization of the State. We congratulate the government for presenting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=19th+Amendment&amp;x=13&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">19<sup>th<\/sup> amendment<\/span><\/a> bill to Parliament. Dropping those sections in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> amendment which required the holding of a referendum is understandable as this is not the appropriate moment to go in for a referendum. The 19<sup>th<\/sup> amendment as it stands is itself a major step forward in the process of democratization of the State.<\/p>\n<p>We consider it the duty of all political parties in Parliament to support the passage of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> amendment through Parliament and to see that the constitutional council is made to function and to see that the independent commissions are set in place.<\/p>\n<p>The SLFP has a special role to play in adopting the 19<sup>th<\/sup> amendment for many reasons among which is the fact that it has been throughout opposed to the executive presidential system and that President Maithripala Sirisena is the President of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lawyers for Democracy\u2019 calls upon all the members of Parliament to support the 19<sup>th<\/sup> amendment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lal Wijenayake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Convener Lawyers for Democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Lawyers for Democracy (LfD) is a representative body of legal practitioners throughout the island. Conveners include Lal Wijenayake, Chandrapala Kumarage, J. C. Weliamuna, K. S. Ratnavale, Sudath Netthisinghe, Sudarshana Gunawardana. It was established on 10<sup>th<\/sup> December 2009\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":142015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SLFP Has A Special Role To Play In Adopting 19A: Lawyers For Democracy - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/slfp-has-a-special-role-to-play-in-adopting-19a-lawyers-for-democracy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SLFP Has A Special Role To Play In Adopting 19A: Lawyers For Democracy - 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