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Message: <blockquote data-quote="analytics" data-source="post: 27546100" data-attributes="member: 537986"><h2>The way forward, for now</h2>The only viable way forward I see at this point is the following.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The president fires the current government.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The president invites someone from parliament to form a new national government. Who is that person? The constitutionally logical person is of course the current opposition leader Sajith Premadasa to be the head of that government (i.e. the Prime Minister), but, the anger of the people is not just against the current government politicians but ALL politicians. So there’s no obvious answer but we need to find someone from parliament to lead the nation, per our constitution.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The new government should be a national government as we have many VERY tough decisions ahead to come out of the economic mess and no party will want those decisions to be used against them in the next election cycle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The president does not take ANY ministries or any government organizations under his wing. Yes, that’s VERY contrary to the massive power he has under 20A. Effectively he becomes a figure head president to see an orderly transition through.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The parliament immediately brings back 19A and removes 20A, which reduces the power of the president and brings more power to the parliament, somewhat formalizing the previous step.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Parliament immediately impeaches Nivard Cabraal as Central Bank Governor (since he is reportedly refusing to resign) and asks the Attorney General to investigate his, the Monetary Board’s and other senior CBSL officials’ role in the currency fiasco and see whether they violated any laws. Oh yeah, the Monetary Board is fired too.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The new national government (which unfortunately will consist of many politicians who’s actions over the past years and decades too led us to the economic nightmare we’re in) appoints a world-class, credible economics team. Those are the roles of Finance Minister, Secretary to the Treasury, Governor of the Central Bank and the Monetary Board to start with. Yes we have good people — if necessary use the national list slots to bring them into parliament.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Parliament runs a referendum on whether to eliminate the executive presidency (if I recall correctly the Supreme Court said that that’s required) before the next presidential election is due in 2024. Bottom line is we can’t afford any election right now, both monetarily and the resulting disruption of policies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The president can choose to finish his term or resign. If the president chooses to resign, it is critical that the president resigns after he has established the new government so that we can avoid a power struggle which can further delay the real work we need to do (i.e., fix the economy). That will allow the new PM to smoothly become the president.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The current parliament continues until its term expires too for the same reason.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">New presidential elections are called in 2024 as previously scheduled, depending on whether the people still want to have an executive president around or not (item #8).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">New parliamentary elections are held after the presidential elections in 2025 as previously scheduled.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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