Fair point about the haste to pass legislation. If only you remembered these things when you are in government. Remember how your dad passed the 18th amendment to the constitution as an urgent bill? SC didn't have more than 3 days to examine it & send determination (1)
https://twitter.com/RajapaksaNamal/status/1062943858181324800
Parliament had no time to debate it. No amendments were even entertained for the 18th amendment. In contrast the the 19th amendment bill was Gazetted for a longer period than it took for the 18th amendment to go through the entire legislative process. (2)
Parliamentary process was of course chaotic for the 19th amendment that's partly because a total of 174 amendments had been submitted for consideration during the committee stage of the Bill (63 amendments by the Government and 111 by the Opposition). (3)
The 19th amendment was a political compromise because it needed the support of the opposition, whereas the 18th amendment was an unashamed power grab (like #CoupLK ) which was passed by buying MPs over to make the 2/3rd majority. (4)
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