Mp3 Audio: Interview with Asanga Welikala over Sarath Fonseka not having a vote
A report by The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV):
Interview with Asanga Welikala, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives over the confusion arising from key presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka not having a vote, and the confusion significantly fueled by State media that he is ineligible to be elected as President as a consequence:
The Centre For Monitoring Elections Violence (CMEV) talks to Asanga Welikala, Senior Researcher of Legal and Constitutional Unit at The Centre for Policy Alternatives, Colombo, on the matter regarding Sarath Fonseka's vote and his candidacy for President.
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What the ordinary citizen asks is "how can I vote for a man who can't vote for himself? Are these Fonseka and his UNF colleagues trying to insult our intelligence as ordinary citizens of this country?"
All the rest of arguments among the Welikalas and Sarath Silvas of this world do not matter to a man who is living with the confines of natural justice and fairplay.
Now that this calculated "deception" of the masses has happened the effects will be mainly on the impending general election when the SLFP will go to town on this topic.
On another note it would have been better for the Eelamists if they had voted for Rajapaksa in the North because then he may not have to re-settle the internally displaced Sinhala people chased down South after the attempted genocides by Dravidian conquistadores of around 800 years back. Besides the uni-ethnic racist occupation has to be replaced by a multi-ethnic Sri Lankan composition in the Northern areas. That is the solution for equitable human rights, and reduction of racists enclaves. The government has now got the necessity and the opportunity to implement a broader multi-ethnic resettlement and development scheme now to prevent racist politics anywhere around Sri Lanka and lead to a balanced polity.