{"id":73780,"date":"2013-02-15T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=73780"},"modified":"2013-02-19T01:36:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T01:36:35","slug":"event-invitation-the-need-for-electoral-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/event-invitation-the-need-for-electoral-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Invitation: The Need For Electoral Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third in the series of discussions organized by the Liberal Party on Ideas for Constitutional Reform<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/what-is-happening-event-invitations\/dilemmas-of-diversity-postwar-identity-and-nation-building-18\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-73777\" title=\"Dilemmas of diversity, postwar identity and nation building (18)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Dilemmas-of-diversity-postwar-identity-and-nation-building-18-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Dilemmas-of-diversity-postwar-identity-and-nation-building-18-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Dilemmas-of-diversity-postwar-identity-and-nation-building-18.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The need for Electoral Reform<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday February 20<sup>th<\/sup> at 5.30 pm <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue: International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All are welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opening presentation: Prof Rajiva Wijesinha<\/p>\n<p>Invited Discussants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>M A Sumanthiran<\/li>\n<li>Dayasiri Jayasekara<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Hassen Ali<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Pradeep Jeganathan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Attention will be paid to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The changing role of Parliamentarians<\/strong>, given the demands of functioning in both a legislative and an executive role.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mechanisms<\/strong> to ensure that the problems of constituents are addressed without compromise of the wider interests of the nation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fourth discussion in the series will be on <strong>March 6th<\/strong> on <strong>\u2018Freedom of Information\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":73777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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