This island nation’s agenda is more important than individual political Parties’ agenda, nor can be any individual
The country is in a crucial juncture that
demands a new electoral process. Though not entirely new because two different
practiced systems three decades apart, for the first time would be made to
yield a single new parliament for a vibrant effective representation. The failure
to adopt such a new electoral process to the very next parliament, would plunge
the country into more troubled deep water. Time and time again this has been emphasized
by many learned society as well as by civic society.
A formula of predominantly of First Past the
Post System, that decide the proportionate representation from the balance of
the cast vote shall emerge, it is hoped. Whatever the final formula the
crossing overs to either side would erode the people’s verdict and swallow all
the good effects of the entire system.
Therefore the present political situation of
the country obviously demands a constitutional guarantee that ensures the
People’s Supremacy and upholding the universal franchise to which Sri Lanka is
proud for since 1931. It is recommended that, clauses should be included in the
electoral section of the constitution, banning all the crossovers to any
elected governing bodies, beginning from the day of nomination until within the
final 45 days of the stipulated term of the particular elected body.
A parliament formed by the
mixed electoral system of FPPS and Proportional Representation System, a Member
of Parliament crossing over to either ruling party or opposition party before
the 45 days of term, will be ceased to function as an MP and lose all the privileges
installed upon becoming Member of Parliament through the either system. If it
is a member through FPPS there should be a By-Election in the particular
Electorate to fill the vacancy and if it is a PPR member, next in line in the
Nationalistic List for the particular electoral district submitted to election
commissioner along with the nominations for FPPS in order to select the
Nationalistic MPS. E.g. Vanni Electoral
District has 3 electorates and all
political parties in the fray mandated to submit 4 names of proposed National
List MPs, whom need not necessarily to
be from the same district and thus termed as Nationalistic List MP, not in the
real meaning of "National List MPs of 1978 constitution", who would
contribute more towards nationalistic duties.
An independent candidate,
who is successfully returned to an elected governing body, though shall hold
the discretion of supporting either the party that forms the government or the
opposition party, any member elected through a registered political party,
cannot do so, but only through the sanction of the executive committee of the
particular political party through which he/she or collectively has been
elected. Anyway any member returned through a political party may become an
independent member by rendering his resignation any time, from the political
party elected him/her shall not join any other political party until 90 days of
acceptance of his resignation by that political party, but it is the same
political party’s discretion whether to apply the law of 45 days of term
stipulation against that particular member even in this case. Any elected
member who has been dismissed and or through disciplinary action by a political
party, will cease to function as a member of any elected governing body, and
lose all the privileges born by that elected body and will be barred from
joining any other political parties, as well as contesting any election, until
the very next election of the same elected body is over.
Stern exemplary actions be
taken against, all of those (any) elected members who instigate, and
participate in any violence during election, and indulge and violating the
election laws should be arrested and remanded until the particular election is
over through the proposed Independent Judicatory Commission – Election Commission
combination; the same should be applied against those any Government Servants
who are partial, fails to implement the election laws, being part of
propaganda, and shall be removed from their office, stripping off the title
he/she holds, imprisonment, and can mount up to freezing their property – this
follows a study revealing most of the Government Servants actively involve
politics to protect the ruling party in order to protect the wealth they have
illegally accumulated during the period concerned, and they may become a part
of toppling a democratically elected government as well.
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