Lanka JVP to push for abolition of presidency
6 May 2018 5:25 PM GMT
Colombo: Sri Lanka's communist party JVP on Sunday said it would move the twentieth amendment to the Constitution seeking abolition of the all-powerful executive presidential system of governance.
"We will soon start talking to Tamil and Muslim minority parties to get their support," JVP senior member Vijitha Herath said. The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is to move a private member's bill in parliament to abolish the presidency. The primary intention of the 20th amendment is to abolish the Executive Presidency. "We all know that there were pledges to abolish the presidency by all presidents who were elected. We believe it can be done," Herath said.
Some sections of the powerful Buddhist clergy and Sinhala majority nationalist political parties have expressed strong opposition to the move and accused the JVP of a
conspiracy.
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