JVP above cabinet

JVP makes about-tune  they certainly can talk talk.IS  GOOOOD TALKING DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO MAKE THING HAPPEN FOR THE GOOD NOT MURDER.

Abolition of Executive Presidency

January 12, 2015, 12:00 pm 

By Dasun Edirisinghe

The JVP yesterday said that it expected to oversee the implementation of five key proposals including the reforming of the executive presidency by the National Executive Council to be appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena.

Addressing the media at the party headquarters, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said the other key proposals were the abolition of the 18th Amendment and the introduction of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, institutional reforms such as the setting up of the Audit Commission and Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and immediate relief for the people.

"The proposed Council will be above the Cabinet," MP Dissanayake said, adding that it would oversee only the 100-day programme of the new government.

Dissanayake said that his party would not join Sirisena’s government or accept any ministerial portfolio as it was useless to accept ministries just for 100 days.

Citing examples, the JVP leader said that the Agriculture Ministry could not cover at least one cultivation season during 100 days, Education Ministry could not cover one school term, Housing Ministry could not complete a foundation for a building or Highways Ministry could not get a tender approved within 100 days. "Why should we bother to accept ministerial portfolios for 100 days?"

Dissanayake, however, said corrupt ministers of the former Rajapaksa regime were competing to get portfolios with their crossover to the new President’s camp with thirst for power even for 100 days.

Asked why the JVP had settled for reforming the executive presidency which it earlier wanted abolished, MP Dissanayake said that at the moment it was difficult to scrap that institution as the government was burdened with many other issues, but his party’s stance on the issue had not changed. "Of course, we are still for abolishing the executive presidency, but at this moment supportive of reforms to the executive presidency," Dissanayake said, noting that as an example one time it supported the introduction of the 17th amendment to the Constitution to curtail powers of the executive.