Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Presidenti­al poll, the answer to present crisis

- A.G.WEERASINGH­E

The present constituti­onal crisis arose as a result of appointing a Prime Minister who didn’t command a simple majority in the Parliament. It appears to be a gamble that backfired. Probably they thought that they could buy over some MP’S and show 113 in the Parliament.

This clearly shows that at the time of MR’S appointmen­t, they did not have 113 which was a violation of the Constituti­on. The remedial damage-control action prorogatio­n and subsequent dissolutio­n were worse than the disease which has brought the country to a standstill. Therefore what the country needs today is not a general election, but a Presidenti­al election.

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