Electoral changes at this juncture: Stabbing with a golden knife-By M.S.M AYUB Source:Dailymirror The claims and doubts of the current Opposition parties that the SLPP led government under President Ranil Wickremesinghe was planning to delay the elections for the local councils that are scheduled to be held early next year are not unfounded. In fact, there are sufficient grounds to believe that government fears elections, what so ever, in light of the hardships faced by the people due to the current economic meltdown President Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 9 made several suggestions to the country’s electoral system during a meeting with a group of professionals at the Presidential Secretariat. He stated that the number of members in local government bodies should be brought down from the current 8700 to 4000, a referendum should be held to decide the Parliamentary electoral system unless the Parliamentary select committee which is to ...