President
Maithri Pala Sirisena is not and cannot be the President of SLFP. Mahinda Rajapakse is legally still the
President of Sri Lan,ka Freedom Party.
To every one
to whom it may concern,
I have not
read the SLFP Constitution, but yet it is
not difficult to see as a Constitutional Lawyer that Maithripala Sirisena has no
legal right to be the President of SLFP. I say this because when he walked into the UNP led Common Front to become their common
Presidential candidate, Maithripala Sirisena forfeited his right as a member of the SLFP.
Therefore
the SLFP constitution’s article that
says any member of SLFP elected as the
President of Sri Lanka becomes the
President of the SLFP cannot be applied to Maithripala Sirisena, as he did not
get the approval of the Central Committee of the SLFP to be the Common
Presidential Candidate of the opposition
group of parties led by UNP. In leaving the SLFP to be a Presidential Candidate
of other parties, he lost his membership
in the SLFP.
Mahinda
Rajapakse who was the President of the SLFP has not right either to offer the office
of President of SLFP to Sirisena as it should have been done by the SLFP
Central Committee.
Therefore,
for all intents and purposes Mahinda
Rajapakse is still the President of SLFP. Therefore all the appointments
Maithripala Sirisena has made to SLFP and the UPFA taking himself to be the President of SLFP are ultra vires and therefore
null and void.
Charles.S.Perera
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