By Dr. Asanga Welikala

There is no merit in the argument that a dissolved Parliament cannot be recalled in the type of emergency we are faced with – including one in which the government has now run out of appropriations approved by Parliament – because the Constitution makes clear and express provision for this situation. If we are to act consistently with the values of constitutional democracy, then it would also demand the rejection of absolute presidential discretions having the effect of negating the tripartite system of republican democracy on which the Constitution is founded. The President and the ruling party have not disguised their intentions; it remains to be seen if the other branches of the state, and above all, the Sri Lankan public, would resist or acquiesce in this attempt at an executive takeover of the state.

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