The Next President Will Be Weaker

But our Constitution is still a mess

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We fucked it all up.

The Sri Lankan Constitution is like a lesson in bad software development. There was some code that was OK but then someone decided to add a ‘feature’ called the Presidency which broke everything else.

Like any software, it’s easy to add new features but devilishly difficult to remove them. Decades later people were able…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.