20th A – Cabinet approves PM’s proposal

The Cabinet approval has been granted for a proposal put forward by the Premier Ranil Wickramasingha to elect 125 Parliamentarians from First-Past-the Post (FPP) system, 75 from Proportional Representation (PR) system and the remaining 25 members from the National List through the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, Parliamentary sources stated.

This was discussed during a cabinet meeting which was held today to take a final decision on the 20th Amendment.

It was earlier suggested to change the existing PR system into a hybrid of PR and FPP system and to increase the number of seats to 255 from 225.

According to that system, 196 members were supposed to elect on a FPP system and a district-based PR system. The remaining 59 members were scheduled to elect from the national list.