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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 8238492" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lankan MPs are to vote on proposals to let  President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek a third term, in a move critics say  could lead to dictatorship.         As well as abolishing the current two-term limit, the constitutional amendments would hugely increase the president's powers.          On Tuesday, the Supreme Court cleared a draft bill, ruling the changes could be voted in by a two-thirds MPs' majority.          The government is expected easily to secure the margin required.          On Wednesday, Prime Minister Dissanayake Mudiyanselage  Jayaratne presented the amendment to parliament and said there was  nothing undemocratic in the plans.   'Bribes and threats'The BBC's Charles Haviland in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo says some  opposition supporters accuse the government of using bribes and threats  to secure MPs' votes, which the administration denies.      The already weak opposition United National  Party is seeing a steady flow of MPs in its coalition declaring they  will vote with the government, our correspondent notes.          Civil society activists have called Wednesday a "black day" and are asking Sri Lankans to wear that colour.          They also vowed to hold another demonstration against the  proposed reforms like the one which attracted several thousand people on  Tuesday.          Meanwhile, pro-government supporters gathered around the  parliament in central Colombo on Wednesday holding posters with slogans  such as "Long live the president!" and "We need a strong president".         Mr Rajapaksa is popular among the country's Sinhalese  majority for presiding over the defeat in May last year of the Tamil  Tiger rebels, after a 25-year separatist insurgency.         Mr Rajapaksa, who was resoundingly re-elected for the second  time in January, says the measures will strengthen democracy in Sri  Lanka.          The amendment would lift restrictions on the number of  presidential terms, currently two, letting Mr Rajapaksa stand again in  2016.          And it would boost his powers, letting him appoint all the  top judges and commissioners for elections, human rights and other  affairs, unfettered by any legal veto.          Critics accuse him of trying to set up a family dynasty - his  son is an MP, and three of the president's brothers are government  ministers.<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11225723" target="_blank">bbc</a><img src="http://images.brisbanetimes.com.au/2010/01/22/1061301/Rajapaksa-420x0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />ape rajata jayawewa <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" />[YOUTUBE]VWitI5iqZHM[/YOUTUBE]<img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/banana2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/icons/banana.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/banana2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/icons/banana.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/banana2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/icons/banana.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/banana2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/icons/banana.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/banana2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/icons/banana.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/banana2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/images/icons/banana.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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