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J. R. Jayewardene who came to office in July 1977 with a five-sixths majority passed the second amendment to the 1972 Constitution on 4 October 1977, which made the presidency an executive post. Under its provisions, then Prime Minister Jayawardene automatically became the first Executive President of Sri Lanka on 4 February 1978. [8]
The 19th Amendment was the first instance in the country's history where executive power was equally shared by the President and the cabinet. The 20th Amendment was a frequent political objective of the ruling party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and a core campaign objective of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration, which recorded landslide ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Amendments of the Constitution of Sri Lanka" The following 6 pages are in this category ...
With 65.26% of the votes counted across the state, Amendment 1 has passed with a 61.4% approval rate. The Associated Press called the results of the ballot measure just before 9 p.m., Tuesday night.
The Constitution of Sri Lanka has been the constitution of the island nation of Sri Lanka since its original promulgation by the National State Assembly on 7 September 1978. It is Sri Lanka's second republican constitution and its third constitution since the country's independence (as Ceylon) in 1948, after the Donoughmore Constitution ...
Amendment 1 is a proposed change to our State Constitution that does not change how it is currently interpreted and enacted but will likely create barriers to voting for many of our neighbors.
The Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 was a constitution of Sri Lanka, replaced by the 1978 constitution currently in force. It was Sri Lanka's first republican constitution, and its second since independence in 1948. The constitution changed the country's name from Ceylon to Sri Lanka, and established it as an independent republic.
Constitutional Amendment 1 proposes to ban noncitizen voting, something that is already prohibited under the Kentucky Constitution. Our electoral system already enforces this with strict penalties ...