The President can still have a second chance!

No doubt there is corruption and an overload of politicians today just like the last regime in spite of the present President’s election promise. However there is much more freedom and safety and lack of fear of white vans, unsolved murders and justice.

It is true that the present President didn’t deliver as much as was expected, but it is not too late. He still has a trump card to gain a place written in Sri Lankan history in golden letters.

If only he lets go the tiger’s tail of trying to salvage the SLFP and concentrates on his sole job, being a President and – abolishes the Executive Presidency during his tenure, certainly he would have done the best for the country. Every president (including the present one) after JR, came to power on the promise of abolishing the executive presidency but always greed and hunger for power got the better of them.

If only the present President will abolish it during his tenure, or at least clip most of the President’s powers which are detrimental to the country, certainly even if he does not come to power the next time, he would have saved the country and even himself. Of course the technical details of his survival will have to be worked out, but that move can give him quite a place in the hearts of the people, and who knows, even a second chance to fulfil his promises to the citizens.

Will he?