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“With the experience of a decade of intense involvement with governance in the country, I believe very sincerely that the body politic in this country must be fully cleansed,” President Kumaratunga said yesterday, in an address to the nation. For this purpose she proposed the setting up of a ‘National Committee for Good Governance’ with wide powers, and chaired by the Prime Minister in order to have a broad exchange of views among political, community and opinion leaders. At a ceremony to mark her eighth anniversary in office as the country’s fourth Executive President, President Kumaratunga once again called for the abolition of the Executive Presidency. She proposed a new electoral system that would protect the interests of minority communities while reflecting the mandate given by the people. The President also proposed that a National Commission for Ethnic Reconciliation and Sustainable Peace be immediately set up to find a durable solution to the ethnic conflict. “This Committee should be comprised of representatives of government, all political parties represented in Parliament, the major Non-Governmental Organisations and the LTTE,” she said. President Kumaratunga urged once again that the problems of the past be put behind and that the political bickering, which has been the “bane of our political culture”, too be banished so that all could live with dignity and equal opportunity.
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