{"id":1510,"date":"2017-06-29T03:41:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T03:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2017-06-29T03:41:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T03:41:26","slug":"new-constitution-drafting-process-nearing-crucial-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/new-constitution-drafting-process-nearing-crucial-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"New Constitution drafting process nearing crucial stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The new Constitution drafting process is nearing a crucial stage where a consensus will be sought, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Prime Minister said that one of the issues which needs to be addressed in the process to draft a new Constitution is how the country will operate without weakening the powers of the Central Government for an emergency while strengthening the forms of Parliamentary Governance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThere are those who have talked of the Westminster system of Government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Prime Minister said drafting a new Constitution is a long process but a process which builds consensus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIn many areas we have reached a consensus especially on devolution of powers and the nature of the state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He says there is agreement that the state cannot be divided and that sovereignty is in the hands of the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Prime Minister also noted that there is a division between Chief Ministers and Parliament on the proposed Constitution with Chief Ministers wanting more powers under the new Constitution and Parliament not agreeing to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also said that to a large extent there is an agreement on the electoral system with backing being given for a mixed proportional system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Constitution drafting process is nearing a crucial stage where a consensus will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}