14 November 2024

Gajalakshmi Paramasivam

 

COALITION WITH MINORITIES

 

Today, Sri Lankans have the opportunity to elect their representatives to make laws on their behalf.

 There are reports that the new President plans to form a government, by including minority cultures. This would weaken Democracy  as Equal Opposition in Sri Lankan governance would be eliminated.

 

Equal Opposition is essential in Democracy just as two parents are needed to make a family.  One is the other side of the other.

In autocracy, the opposition is invisible. Confidentiality is the strength of  autocracy. Armed groups, including official armies  are autocratic. The current president of Sri Lanka has his origins in an autocratic structure. As an individual he is kind and humble. As head of an institutional structure he would need to be autocratic within and democratic on the outside.

Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa also faced this challenge. In his case the voters voted for the system he represented. If voters vote for the person in the current president, there will be Peace and harmony in Sri Lanka. My spiritual vote is for the person in the current president.