SRI LANKA:
Rise up Against Sirisena's Attempt to Subvert Democracy and Establish a Bonapartist Dictatorship through Unconstitutional Means
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The official collective genius of France (Sri Lanka) was brought to naught by the artful stupidity of a single individual ( Sirisena)-
Karl Marx
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The President of Sri Lanka , Maithripala Sirisena, who was elected at the Presidential Election held on the 8th of January 2015 defeating the then all-powerful President Mahinda Rajapaksha, has created an unprecedented constitutional crisis by appointing the very same Mahinda Rajapaksha as the his new Prime Minister, thereby not only openly subverting the very same 19th Amendment to the Constitution which he himself has sanctified hitherto, but also shamelessly betraying the mandate given to him by more than 6 million people ( 62,17, 162 to be precise). Notwithstanding all the misdemeanours of all the previous Presidents of Sri Lanka none of them them blatantly violated the Constitution of the country in such a way arrogating to themselves powers which are not given to them by the Constitution. Even when the then President J.R. Jayawardena who promulgated the dictatorial Executive Presidency in 1978 decided to do away with the Parliamentary Election of 1982 through the notorious Referendum, notwithstanding its undemocratic and unethical nature , it was done prostituting his Constitutional right to hold Referendums. In contrast to that, President Sirisena's diabolical conspiratorial act has no imaginable Constitutional basis whatsoever.This certainly is the one and only time in the annals of world history that a President who has come to power defeating a sitting President calling him a dictator , after a brief span of 3 years during which time castigating that dictator for real and preposterous fake charges , even going so far as to accuse the incumbent Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe of providing an Helicopter to this dictator to go to his hometown after the defeat, in an unprecedented turn around appointed that very same dictator in a blatantly unconstitutional way as the Prime Minister of that country, ironically, to reestablish democracy! What a farce!! Ironies of ironies!!! This was done in such a conspiratorial way he has completely forgotten to dismiss the incumbent Prime Minister before the appointment of his fellow conspirator who is well-prepared to do any despicable thing to grab political power ! This Sirisena ,who still dares to call himself the President of this country notwithstanding the fact that he has forfeited his mandate by this treacherous act alone, has in fact did it blatantly violating the Constitution which he is duty bound to uphold and respect.In point of fact the very amendment which deprives him of any power whatsoever to remove the Prime Minister was enacted with his full approval. In fact, he made it a point to demonstrate at every point that the 19th Amendment, which incidentally was enacted with such a thumping majority of 215 to 1, was not only an historic achievement in the struggle to democratize the dictatorial 1978 Constitution but also a ineradicable proof of his magnanimity and greatness,which cannot be found in the annals of world history , in which no other ruler ever willingly approved self-renunciation of power! He went to the extent of requesting his term of office to be reduced to 4 years when it was proposed to reduce it from 6 years to 5 years! Such was the democratc spirit of the time! Not even the self-same Sirisena could not resist it! This is the man who has gone berserk now and playing havoc with the country, democratic institutions and democracy itself, becoming the law unto himself ! It is not for nothing that Lord Acton made his memorable saying: Power corrupts; absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely.
As
far as this Sirisena is concerned the word "betrayal" is now synonymous
with his name. It is this same Sirisena who betrayed this very same
Mahinda Rajapaksha in 2014 in order to get the nomination as the
"Common Candidate'' notwithstanding the fact that it was he who called
him this Mahinda Rajapaksha as "MAHARAJA"(great king ) .Thus there is no
need whatsoever to get bewildered when this former betrayer of his own
king , conspiratorially betrayed a man with whom he associated with less
than 4 years ago and gang up with his former king. Such a man can betray
anyone even for a mess of pottage! Citizens of Sri Lanka,Beware, not
of dogs, but of this unscrupulous betrayer!!
Since his unconstitutional act he launched a campaign to assure the
world by asserting that his action is constitutional and it was taken
after much deliberation with the advice of his so-called learned legal
luminaries. The whole country,if not the whole world,very well know who
these legal lumiunaries (BAKA PUNDITHAYAS) are! They were the the people
who were hell bent on to get Mahinda Rajapaksha appointed as the
Prime Minister come what may and and were roaming around Courts doing
their best to drag the cases pending in various courts against them
relating to embezellement of public funds during their administration
.While a few of them are practicing lawyers, most of them have only
paper qualifications but never practiced as lawyers. They are ever
prepared to prostitute law in order to make their "indispensable" leader
the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. In fact , they were claiming that
Mahinda Rajapaksha can come forward as a candidate at the next
Presidential Election despite the fact that he is ineligible to do so is
clear as daylight.
It seems that the President Maithripala is under the illusion that he
can make his unconstitutional act constitutional by incessantly
repeating the deliberate lie that it is constitutional, as Herr
Goebells taught his master dictator Hitler in his good old days. But
unfortunately for President Sirisena, there is the 19th Amendment to the
Constitution of Sri Lanka, which was enacted with his full approval and
for which he enthusiastically garnered the support of his Sri Lanka
Freedom Party to get the necessary two thirds majority.Not only that. It
was none other than President Sirisena who reiterated that according to
the Constitution there is no way to change the government till 2020.
What is important is not what he says.What is important is what the
Constitution stipulates.While we are not constitutional cretins, when
the development of the political situation revolves around the
constitutionality of an act of the country's Executive President, when
the whole country as well as the whole world is is deliberately misled
by the President in furtherance of the Bonapartist dictatorial
ambition, it is incumbent upon us to clarify the situation in the
simplest way possible.As it becomes clearer and clearer that
maithripala Sirisena is hell bent on destroying the last vestiges of
democracy of Sri Lanka, this task becomes all the more necessary.
As everybody knows ,before the 19th Amendment the President had the
power to dismiss a Prime Minister and appoint a new Prime Minister
whenever wanted.With the 19th Amendment that power is no more.Whether
that is right or wrong, good or bad is a completely a different
question.
Then came the second Act.
As he had to prove that Mahinda Rajpaksha commands a majority in the Parliament, the President did everything in his power to induce MPs to join his so-called Cabinet resorting to the most despicable underhand methods imaginable while certain people who posed themselves as "legal experts " vociferously engaged in a campaign claiming that there is no constitutional obligation whatsoever to prove that he commands such a majority, a claim even school children can refute without any difficulty. Notwithstanding all such claims, the President who abruptly adjourned the Parliament till 16th of November to get some time to accomplish his mission impossible, was in such a miserable situation that he could not appoint a Cabinet in a triumphant way so as to impress if not the whole country, at least his own slavish supporters who were born to applause whatever Mahinda does. Instead he has to appoint his Cabinet and other ministers in such a piecemeal way which makes the country the laughing stock of the world. Due to the mounting international pressure (he no longer reacts to the internal pressure) he had to agree to advance the date of commencement of the Parliament , but even then only by 2 days! Yet ,true to his dictatorial and conspiratorial nature, again abruptly, he dissolved the Parliament , again blatantly violating the Constitution , which explicitly prohibit the President from dissolving the Parliament before the the elapse of four and half years, unless the Parliament request him to do so through a motion adopted by a two-thirds majority. Sirisena the Usuper has subverted this provision not only without such a request but also without having a semblance of even a simple majority let alone a two-thirds majority.In fact it was done in such a conspiratorial manner not even his closest cohorts of his so-called Party -SLFP- were dumbfounded when it was announced. When his unconstitutional and dictatorial dissolution was challenged and the Supreme Court decided to give an interim order restraining the holding of the general election , Sirisena's dream world received a Shattering blow. Yet who could stop a dictator who is prepared to bring a country to the brink of disaster in order to perpetuate his diabolical ambition, come what may.
Then came the third Act.
When the Speaker summoned the Parliament ,instead of proving that they had a majority, the fake Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksha's ministerial gangsters resorted to unprecedented and carefully orchestrated violence against the Speaker of the Parliament, taking cover behind spurious procedural arguments. This violence against the Speaker culminated in the worst Mafia-type gangsterism inside the Parliament which did not spare the parliamentary staff either.In fact Mahinda Rajapakshe not only hasn't done anything to stop his parliamentary goondas: He was caught red- handed directing them through bodily gestures.He nor Sirisena up to now has condemned their hoodlums,thereby proving beyond any doubt that the scene was stage-managed with the connivance of these "saviours of the country."
Then came the forth Act.
When the Speakr communicated to him that the No-Confidence Motion against Mahinda Rajapaksha was carried with 122 votes, Sirisena rejected to accept it as authentic.While President has no authority to direct the Speaker, the Speaker in a conciliatory gesture has taken the vote in every manner possible- every time Sirisena's fake P.M. lost. Sirisena who usurped the powers of the Speaker hasn't stopped there.He ordered that the No Confidence Motion should be amended as he wanted, thereby usurping the power of the Legislature.There is no limit to which he is prepared to go in this conspiracy is proved beyond any doubt when he bombastically declared that he won't appoint Ranil Wickramasinghe as the P.M. under any circumstance, even if the 225 members of Parliament en bloc request him to do so!Could anyone, except a pocket Hitler, could challenge the Parliament in this way? With this extremely dictatorial declaration , this Sirisena not only proves conclusively that he is a mortal enemy of democracy but also that he should be removed forthwith from the Presidency and ostracised from the civilised society.This ignoramus , through his preposterous acts has brought the country to such an impasse , Sri Lanka , at the moment, has no government, no Cabinet of ministers, no Prime Minister,; although it has a President, the conspiratorial ignoramus who occupies it ,violates or conspiring to violate every single provision of the Constitution to further his diabolical ambitions, notwithstanding the fact that he is under oath to uphold and respect it and to do all acts and things that is not inconsistent with the Constitution.
His all orders and Gazettes are challenged at Courts and he is bound to lose every case because his all acts are blatantly unconstitutional and only a lunatic can contemplate to issue such orders and Gazettes which are only capable of bringing disster to the country. If Sri Lanka has a Parliament worth its name all the members should have come forward to defend their own sovereignty when it is challenged by a single individual who has no power base whatsoever , just in order, in his own words , to settle accounts with one individual who has become his mortal enemy! His personal vendetta is more important than his so-called love for the Motherland which he shouts about so vociferously while for Mahinda Rajapaksha grabbing the political power at any cost is the most precious thing in this world, whatever happens to his much-loved Motherland ,which he claims he saved by defeating the LTTE in 2009.He knows very well , if Sirisena succeeds in his attempts to subvert the Constitution unhampered, he and his Rajapaksha family Junta will be the immediate beneficiary, in the event that his candidate is victorious at the Presidential election to be held at anytime between January 2019 and January 2020.Therefore , let Sirisena do everything possible to desecrate the Constitution in the meanwhile.
Therefore , everyone , especially the working class ,should unitedly fight against the dictatorial steps taken by Sirisena with the help of Mahinda Rajapaksha, and should rise up against all the anti-democratic dictatorial tendencies from whichever part they emanate and, should decisively crush them .
To conclude we need only to quote what Karl Marx said of Louis Bonaparte in 1851, i.e. 167 years ago:
"Driven by the contradictory demands of his situation and being at the same time, like a conjuror, under the necessity of keeping the public gaze fixed on himself, as Napoleon's substitute, by springing constant surprises , that is to say, under the necessity of executing a coup d'etat en miniature every day, Bonaparte throws the entire bourgeois economy into confusion,violates everything that seemed inviolable to the revolution of 1848, make some tolerant of the revolution, and produces actual anarchy in the name of order, while at the same time stripping its halo from the entire state machine, profanes it and makes it at once loathsome and ridiculous. The cult of the Holy Coat of Trier he duplicates in Paris with the cult of Napoleonic imperial mantle. But when the imperial mantle finally falls on the shoulders of Louis Bonaparte, the bronze statue of Napoleon will crash from the top of the Vendome Column"
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