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| Sunday, 29 September 2002 |
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PA, JVP edge closer to common strategy by Deepal Warnakulasuriya While dates for the parliamentary debate on the 19th Amendment are yet to be finalised,the PA and the JVP have edged closer to a common strategy on the issue following another meeting between the PA leaders and President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga which took place on Friday. Yet another meeting is due on Tuesday with attention focused on several petitions filed before the Supreme Court against the Bill by several political parties including the SLFP, PA and MEP and other parties. Former PA Minister and MP, Lakshman Kadirgamar, told the "Sunday Observer" that the proposed amendment was against democracy and it would lead the country to a dictatorship. He said that it did not have positive signs for the country's development, but on the contrary sounded the death knell for the multiple party system in the country. Mr. Kadirgamar explained that nowhere in the World a cross-over system had prevailed allowing the MPs to cross-over from their respective parties to secure their seats in the House with that particular party being unable to cancel the membership of such an MP.This sort of system would destroy the multiple party system. He said that he had already informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe over their obnoxious clauses and doubts in the Bill that would be a stumbling-block to the peace process. |
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