The gazette notification on the 20th Amendment to the Constitution is expected to be released tonight after the special cabinet meeting today concludes the draft electoral reforms, Cabinet Spokesperson, Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne stated yesterday.
Addressing the weekly cabinet news briefing, he pointed out the new Parliament to be formed will comprise of 200 elected members including that from multi seat constituencies and another 25 from the National List and added there will not be dissolution of Parliament until the 20th amendment was passed in Parliament.
Nevertheless, the problem is that many political parties including the minority parties are not in satisfied with United National Party’s (UNP’s) proposal to decrease the number of constituencies to 125. We can sort out all these issues and the composition of the Parliament under the new electoral system when we discuss the Bill at the committee stage,’ he added further.
Expressing views on the No Confidence Motion (NCM) against Prime Minister (PM) Ranil Wickramasingha and Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, he stated both would not be taken up for debate during the term of this Parliament.
