Responding to speculations, there is no move to scrap the executive presidency, Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapaksha told Parliament today.
“Scrapping of the Executive Presidency is a complicated and difficult process. There is no way we can do it through the present Parliament. It is also an exercise which people of this country have to be engaged in,” the Minister said.
“However we have proposed introducing a new electoral system for electing MPs to the House. Accordingly, we proposed to elect 160 members first past the post system and to appoint a certain portion of MPs from the national list and the reset through a PR system. However some want that the number of MPs elected under first past the post system reduced to 15o while some others want it reduced further to 140. Government is open for a discussion on the matter. People want this change. Therefore a change is a must,” he added.
