As all state institutions are either directly or indirectly supervised by the Defence Ministry, So neither the electoral system, the opposition nor the judiciary are in a position challenge it says Attorney J.C. Weliamuna.
Attorney said the situation has got worse as the failure to implement the electoral system that was proposed in the 18th Amendment.
Although it was proposed in the 18th Amendment to amend the entire electoral system along with the local government elections, there were doubts over its effectiveness since the political motives behind its implementation were not beneficial to the people, Weliamuna said.
He further said the administration in office at the time of election gets the power to use the facilities of state resources during election time and to challenge the electoral system through it.
Therefore, the holding of a free and fair election was not possible at all.
According to Weliamuna when the public service and the three armed forces are politicized, a party could use them even to fulfill their petty political needs.
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