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The 19th Amendment (19A) to the Constitution of Sri Lanka was passed by the 225-member Sri Lankan Parliament with 215 voting in favor, one against, one abstained and seven were absent, on 28 April 2015. The amendment envisages the dilution of many powers of Executive Presidency, which had been in force since 1978. It is the most revolutionary reform ever applied to the Constitution of Sri Lanka since JR Jayawardhane became the first Executive President of Sri Lanka in 1978. ==Introduction.== The proposal for such an amendment was a leading promise of the ''Common Candidate'' of the New Democratic Front, incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena in the Presidential Election campaign of 2015. The main prospect of the amendment is repealing the ''18th Amendment'' which armed the President with extreme powers and reinforcing democracy in the country. It establishes a Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka) which will exercise some executive powers previously held by the Executive Presidency. The ''19th amendment'' restores many components of the ''17th amendment'' letting the Constitutional Council to set up the proposed Independent Commissions including; 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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