Two veterans from the private and government sectors of Sri Lanka’s Information Technology industry have drawn up a ‘constitutionally consistent, practical, and viable plan’ to address the current economic crisis in the country.
The plan has been drafted by the founder of open-source technology provider WSO2, Sanjiva Weerawarana, and former Digital Secretary and ICTA Program Director Wasantha Deshapriya.
Weerawarana and Deshapriya have highlighted the need for a stable government to address the worsening economic crisis.
Excerpts of the draft:
The necessary steps to achieve a national government can be summarized as follows:
1. Pass the 21st Amendment to the constitution repealing the 20th Amendment and comprising of an improved 19th Amendment to curtail the powers of the president
2. Design a new cabinet structure with 28 cabinet ministers (or less) and no deputy ministers or any kind of non-cabinet ministers
3. Ask all current 29 national list MPs to resign from parliament
4. Ask all parties to nominate new members with specialized skills needed to occupy the 28 cabinet positions and the prime minister role
5. President invites the identified national list member to form a national government consisting only of national list members and appoints the identified person as the prime minister without the president or PM taking any portfolios
6. All political parties agree to support the national agenda as defined by this national government (NewsWire)
