Colombo Telegraph exclusively reported<\/strong><\/a> that President Sirisena, in a bid to manipulate the judiciary, had refrained from appointing Justice Amarasekara and S.Thurairajah as Supreme Court judges despite the CC recommending their names in October.<\/p>\nWithout appointing the two judges with unblemished track records, the President had referred two other names, K.K. Wickremesinghe and Deepali Wijesundara, to the CC for approval to be appointed as the Supreme Court judges.<\/p>\n
Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his capacity as the Opposition Leader also attended the Constitutional Council meeting last month and supported the President\u2019s move to nominate two new names to the Supreme Court, undermining the authority of the Constitutional Council.<\/p>\n
Rajapaksa was present at the CC this morning as well. He, however, had no say on the matter as the large majority of CC members were against the President’s attempts at undermining the council’s authority.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the CC unanimously decided to approve the appointment of Court of Appeal Chairman Padman Surasena as a Supreme Court judge. Surasena’s name was nominated by Sirisena as the replacement of Eva Wanasundara who retired from the judicial service last month.<\/p>\n
Apart from Rajapaksa, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Minister Thalatha Atukorale, JVP MP Bimal Ratnayake and Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala attended the CC meeting this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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