News Feature: The President Retains Key Ministries

Monday, 12 February 2007

Although 53 ministries have been distributed among Parliamentarians in a mega cabinet of 53 ministers, main ministries still lie with President Rajapakse. It has also been revealed that most of the portfolios allocated to ministers are without any meaningful powers.

The President still retains 6 ministries. The Ministry of religious affairs and social justice and Welfare, the Ministry of Defence, Public Security and Law and Order, the Ministry of Plan implementation and the Ministry of National infrastructure and Plantation Infrastructure are with him.

In all, 90 legally established State Boards function under these ministries retained by the President. In addition, the Ministries of the three Ministers sacked are also retained by the President.

Having appointed more than 50 ministers, the President retains more than 6 Ministries and nearly 100 Boards enjoying jurisdiction. This clearly shows the retention of power in the hands of the Presidency.

Can the minorities expect the President who is reluctant to share the powers with his own ministers to ever agree on power sharing with minority Tamils?

An English translation of the Editorial in Sudar Oli, a Tamil daily, based in Colombo.

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jay said:

No country in the world has 53 ministries. This istelf shows what type of government the President is running. He doesn't know anything about running a country. How is such a moron expect to find a credible solution to the ongoing conflict.

The international community of world leaders too cannot see such stupidity.

2007-03-30 06:22:55

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