It is a very dangerous practice to allow individual political parties to determine the dates of any true democratic elections. No any single political party can be allowed to take upper hand or use the period of election favorable to them and dissolve the democratically elected councils or Parliament.
Democracy belongs to the people and the election as well for the people; the political parties are just a medium in between the need of the people and the representative body that fulfills the need of the people. Need of the people is represented through an election manifesto that is mandated. Therefore mandated need of the people is far more important than representative body itself.
In good governance need of the people should be weighed favorably than the period of an elected body. “100 days” is just an attractive term to attract the voters for the presidential election that demanded change for abolition of authoritarian executive presidency to which the people had mandated thrice and the electoral reforms on which this parliament has spent considerable time and resources but still stay put in discussion only. Present elected Parliament has one more year until 2016 June to complete its term and cannot end its term before, because of an election to elect an individual as a president, that cannot compromise or determine the period of the people’s Supreme Parliament; it is duty bounded to present the bill of completed deliberations of a particular Parliament Select Committee before it ends its period, otherwise it becomes a waste of public funds for nothing.
It is mandated as a hallmark for good governance and part of it as well!
It was a State requirement at the dawn of year 2015 for a change through a National Government for Sri Lanka, for the reasons that is crystal clear by now for every citizen; but what is happening now - the representatives who formed the Government, that is so called National Government, showing vigorous signs of inability to co-exist and to behave like patriotic even for a mere 100 days. Mr. Maithripala Srisena has become too "Maithree" to hold the executive office with absolute powers and just watching the raising of ugly heads of individual political parties that are constituent of a National Government, mandated only for 100 days.
During the election campaign UNP-ers and others worked with them shouted louder and louder at each and every platform that the pruning the powers of executive presidency and revamping of electoral process within 100 days would be achieved any how; but today the UNP is back tracking the change in electoral process but only with Constitutional Amendment to prune the Presidents' powers - Pruning the powers of president without the electoral reforms will lead to a very dangerous post election situation - that only can be handled by an powerful executive president that is fittingly none other than Mr. Maithripala Srisena who will be the last man to hold those powers.
Therefore the of electoral process that is 160 First Past the Post system of 1976 delimitation and 65 Proportionate Representative system of the 1980 constitution should be used for the General Election that emanates off the dissolution of Parliament on 23rd April 2015; it should also be noted that a new national government before the general election would back track the change mandated and half achieved. But it is quite imperative that change mandated by the people for the abolition of executive presidency and electoral reforms since 1994 cannot be over looked for any further, because these systems itself had contributed to all the sins of the country and warranted the change of both systems it self rather than the representatives.
