As all state institutions are either directly or indirectly supervised by the Defence Ministry, So neither the electoral system, the opposition nor the judiciary are in a position challenge it says Attorney J.C. Weliamuna.
Attorney said the situation has got worse as the failure to implement the electoral system that was proposed in the 18th Amendment.
Although it was proposed in the 18th Amendment to amend the entire electoral system along with the local government elections, there were doubts over its effectiveness since the political motives behind its implementation were not beneficial to the people, Weliamuna said.
He further said the administration in office at the time of election gets the power to use the facilities of state resources during election time and to challenge the electoral system through it.
Therefore, the holding of a free and fair election was not possible at all.
According to Weliamuna when the public service and the three armed forces are politicized, a party could use them even to fulfill their petty political needs.
Tampilkan postingan dengan label Attorney General. Tampilkan semua postingan
Tampilkan postingan dengan label Attorney General. Tampilkan semua postingan
Senin, 28 Februari 2011
Minggu, 20 Februari 2011
Attorney General’s Department Biased Towards The Ruling Party (UPFA) - Claims JVP
The JVP has accused the Attorney General’s Department of being biased towards the governing party without safeguarding the public officials.
JVP parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake told a press conference that the people need to be aware of the current state of the judiciary and understand that the cases being heard against the rejection of nomination lists was more than what appears to be.
He also said that the governing UPFA and the main opposition UNP should not have challenged the rejection of its nomination lists, but accept the shortcomings on their part.
“If there has been a shortcoming in preparing the nomination lists, it has to be accepted. Two of our lists were also rejected and when our legal experts looked at them and explained things to us, we realized that we had made a mistake, so we did not file a case,” he said.
Dissanayake noted that in the event a political party has violated the laws that have been approved by them in parliament in the first place, it was fair for the nomination lists to be rejected on those grounds.
He also said the JVP would take legal action if the rejected nomination lists of the UPFA and UNP for the local government bodies in Akmemana, Akuressa and Moneragala Pradeshiya Sabhas were given the green light by courts.
Also in our web site, we did point out that this is an illegal move, ( even to postphone !) taking in to account what happened to UNP's Colombo Municipal Council nomination papers when they when to court last time. If by any decision, as JVP point out too, If green light is given for above rejections, it will be a black mark for Sri Lanka Internationally.
JVP parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake told a press conference that the people need to be aware of the current state of the judiciary and understand that the cases being heard against the rejection of nomination lists was more than what appears to be.
He also said that the governing UPFA and the main opposition UNP should not have challenged the rejection of its nomination lists, but accept the shortcomings on their part.
“If there has been a shortcoming in preparing the nomination lists, it has to be accepted. Two of our lists were also rejected and when our legal experts looked at them and explained things to us, we realized that we had made a mistake, so we did not file a case,” he said.
Dissanayake noted that in the event a political party has violated the laws that have been approved by them in parliament in the first place, it was fair for the nomination lists to be rejected on those grounds.
He also said the JVP would take legal action if the rejected nomination lists of the UPFA and UNP for the local government bodies in Akmemana, Akuressa and Moneragala Pradeshiya Sabhas were given the green light by courts.
Also in our web site, we did point out that this is an illegal move, ( even to postphone !) taking in to account what happened to UNP's Colombo Municipal Council nomination papers when they when to court last time. If by any decision, as JVP point out too, If green light is given for above rejections, it will be a black mark for Sri Lanka Internationally.
Langganan:
Postingan (Atom)