“So the system should be changed either by the stakeholders or by the government. It is a simple calculation. In New Zealand five or six votes to appoint a president. Australia has seven or eight votes to appoint a president. England maybe twenty two. South Africa seven or eight. Pakistan now have ten, I am told. India with 1.2 billion people have forty seven votes, if I am not mistaken. In little Sri Lanka with twenty million people, we have 147 votes, that is what is leading to all this chaos. Since 1996, we have all these problems; it means the system is not working. Then if the system is not working, change it into a better system. The prevailing system is wrong, I agree with you, but what are we to do?”
So says Sidath Wettimuny.....147 votes.....absurd & stupid for a small country like ours.
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/150531/uncategorized/change-is-a-must-but-it-should-be-done-consensually-sidath-151456.html
So says Sidath Wettimuny.....147 votes.....absurd & stupid for a small country like ours.
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/150531/uncategorized/change-is-a-must-but-it-should-be-done-consensually-sidath-151456.html