Political philosophies of each party will decide the winner. – By Sunil Thenabadu Acknowledgement of every one’s cultural distinctiveness, religious principles and cost schemes suits an imperative vital right in current humanities. Similarly, casting one’s vote in a democracy, too, is a vital right particularly at the elections. Fairness is the best apparatus people have come up with for steering the trade-offs and weaknesses inherent in different socio-economic systems. Democracies allow inevitable conflicts to be resolved in a way that maximises fairness and legitimacy and that broadly reflects society’s views. An individual’s choice given in an election formulates a mandate expressed with an opinion for a party or a group of alliance to administer the state forming a government. An elected government secures a mandate to restrain freedoms of the citizens within the rules respecting the fundamental rights of citizens. As such all democracies are functioning as rule-based societies. Since ...

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To re-democratize SL, abolish Executive Presidency: A response – By Bernard Fernando   As a labelled sovereign voter and a stake holder in the Country’s Governance and Electoral system /process, the writer was enlivened by a clarion call in the Press by a group of Lawyers, Academics and civil rights activists to abolish the Executive Presidency. To my knowledge, this was a specific demand by one Political Party as far back as in 1994 to support a major Party which was heading towards victory in the General Election of 1994. This popular promise was quickly picked up by all Political parties in the fray as their main ‘Election carrot’ offered to the populace. Alas ! it still remains in the back burner for the last 30 years signifying the ‘truthfulness’ of our traditionally cunning and power – greedy politicians! The latent public detest towards Executive Presidency exploded with the slogan ...

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