Looks like the chief justice is trying to secure his position like he did when Chandrika is in power. His attempts has made Chandrika to secure her presidency as well as to put SB in prison and make it easier for Mahinda to become Chandrika's successor. It is being reported that Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva has advised the president not to change the executive president system.
According to information available the CJ has advised the president in this regard when they met at temple trees last week to discus and amend the proposal presented by the SLFP to the ethnic conflict.
Ministers Maithripala Sirisena, Wishwa Warnapala, Nimal Siripala de Silva and President�s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga were also present for the discussion. They were discussing about changing the electoral system when the chief justice said that the executive presidency should not be changed. It is also being reported that a close ally minister of the president is also opposing the electoral system reforms proposed by a group of SLFP parliamentarians headed by Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.
But the Mahinda Chinthanaya presented by President Mahinda Rajapakse before the election stated that he would abolish the executive presidency. It said that the president would bring about a new constitution with the consent of all relevant parties. The Mahinda Chinthanaya document also promised the public that the president would participate at parliamentary sessions once a month to ensure the credibility and the trust in the parliament.
It has been 15 months since president Rajapakse assumed duties and so far abolishing of the executive presidency and changing the constitution has not proceeded. Forget the hard ones, the promise that could be easily lived up to, which is being present in parliament once a month, is also not being kept by the president. The president has so far been in parliament only to propose the budget as the minister of finance.
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This is the hardest, not the easiest promise to keep.
Power, once tasted, is very difficult to give up. The longer one is enthroned, the more difficult it gets. Further, the number of vested interests that grow around a power base multiply exponentially with time.
We need not tinker with what we have, what is needed is a wholesale change. The easiest step would be to return to the Westminster constitution either 1972 or 1948 but I fear that a leader who has enough vision to see the importance of this step and the courage to execute it will be impossible to find.
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