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May 17 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
මෙවැනි දේ කළ හැකි ජනපතිවරයකු සිටින රටක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීන් කිසිදා ජනතාවගේ පැත්ත ගනීද? (ව්‍යවස්ථා වගන්ති වරහන් තුල)

1. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව වසරකට පසු විසිරුවා හැරීම (70)
2. අගමැති පත් කිරීම හා ඉවත් කිරීම (43,47)

#AbolishPresidencyLK #SriLanka 1/
3. කැබිනට්, රාජ්‍ය, නියෝජ්‍ය, වැඩ බලන යන මෙකී නොකී සියළු ඇමති ධුර පත් කිරීම හා ඉවත් කිරීම (44,45,46,47,50)
4. පොලිස් කොමිෂන් සභා සාමාජිකයින් පත්කිරීම හා ඉවත් කිරීම (155)
#AbolishPresidencyLK #SriLanka 2/
5. අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාවට කැමති සාමාජිකයින් පත්කිරීම (111)
6. විනිසුරු වරුන් පත් කිරීම හා ඉවත් කිරීම (11)
7. අපරාධ කරුවන් නිදහස් කිරීම (34)
8. තානාපති වරු පත් කිරීම (33)

#AbolishPresidencyLK #SriLanka 3/
පිටු 230 වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ ස්ථාන 422ක "ජනාධිපති" (president) යන වචනය සඳහන් වේ. ඉතින් කිසිදු ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ මන්ත්‍රී වරයකු මෙවන් ධුරයකට පිටුපා යයිද?
parliament.lk/files/pdf/cons…
#AbolishPresidencyLK #SriLanka 4/

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