Munza Mushtaq in Colombo,  Thu Feb 16 07:57:50 EST 2006

    The Department of Elections today afternoon rejected the United
National Party (UNP) nomination's list to contest the Colombo
Municipal Council (CMC).

The Election Department's ruling was given on grounds that one of the
candidates fielded by the UNP to contest the forthcoming local
Government Election was under the stipulated 18 years of age.

The UNP which chose ex Mayor/Minister Sirisena Cooray as their Mayoral
Candidate, was pondering their 'next steps' at the time this article
was filed.

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So Dear freinds,
The biggest political party in Sri Lanka could not give a pettion correctly few weeks ago.  
Today again failed in giving a nominations to its one of the biggest hoping council.

RW and his fellow jokers must be still going round and struggling to get rid of riots withing the party.  
Anyway t is a good news, because RW is going to be another  "Wiharamahadevi".  (To sacrify himself leading an election flood which is flowing to otherside.


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as some PA & CWC nomiantions were also rejected, it is better to change the law & give a second chance. pa & unp can join together & pass the law to enable the second chance wt 2/3 majority. it is a simple thing. it is shame that our politician cant even make a list for the councils according to the legal bounds. we should give them a second chance. if that chance also fail ,better deprive their franchise rights for the benefit of the country.
     

If RW was wandering why people are asking him to step down, then this may add to the long list of many reasons.  He kept everyone in his party distracted with the indecision on the choice of the mayor, that the party could not even fill out the nomination papers correctly.  I think the students in the law college cold have filled them out correctly. RW said he wanted to run the country like a CEO, well the little capitalism i know tells me that in no company can a CEO like himself survive with repeated failures. He would have been fired long time back. I dont belong to the category of RW haters since i believe he has done a huge service to the nation during the peace process which has kept the war mongers at bay and saved many lives. But if he consideres that he has been sent by god to save the nation or the UNP, then he is sadly mistaken. Repeated failures as a political leader should have made him realise that the time to go has come. Its time to step down and let others take over and build a vision to the party and the country. The blame should also be shared by people like Milinda Moragoda, Mahroof, MH Mohomed and others who only thought of themsevles my promoting various candidates for the mayor post while not doing anything to ensure the success of the party as a whole in a slam dunk victory in Colombo. The only good side (or bad) to this the emergence of a party like the JVP or PA in Colombo to ensure the betterment of its citizens.


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"A nation is a collective enterprise - outside of that it is a gambling hall for the opportunism and adventurism of power."-Wole Soyinka

No second chance should be given to those who failed to finalise a simple initial election process.

They are qualifed lawyers/law makers and claim to have vast knowledge in running the country!

Such nonsense should not continue.  From now on, everyone will be careful not to make any silly mistakes and blunders


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The recent news says that election commission has said in his list as this candidate is over 18 last year. I think there was confusion in preparing the list. UNP is going to court. Let’s wait and see what is going to happen.

Anyone knows who was responsible in the party for preparing this list?


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What I find strange is that the whole ellection process goes into jeapordy because one person on the list is suspect.

Surely the commonsensical tning to do would be to cross the name off the list and move everything up one.

If Parliament actually debated the laws it passed instead of acting as a cross between a bar brawl and a version of Big Brother, then presumably these kind of situations would have regulations in place to deal with them.

I feel happy, when I m not supposed to. Should try to reduce my animosity towards this party  

Either these guys are so unprofessional that they cannot even prepare a nomination, or they sabotaged it because of the internal rift. If this happened in a Pradeshiya sabha, it could be considered a genuine mistake.

Anyway, now there will be some excitement. Which independent party will donate their place to UNP, etc, etc.


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[quote="Stephen Jones"]What I find strange is that the whole ellection process goes into jeapordy because one person on the list is suspect.

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This is a weakness that came in with the proportional voting system. They dont want to change it bcos they try to shoot down each other's nominations by finding small mistakes.


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Boothaya wrote:

I feel happy, when I m not supposed to. Should try to reduce my animosity towards this party  

Either these guys are so unprofessional that they cannot even prepare a nomination, or they sabotaged it because of the internal rift. If this happened in a Pradeshiya sabha, it could be considered a genuine mistake.
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Naah This is sheer incompetence. Heck what do you expect from the blokes who signed the CFA without even reading the darn thing. [Not that I object to the CFA but the UNP( read Ranil ) never ever contemplated the short comings of the document. ]


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It is another example of people just beating the drums without knowing the full news.  Actually the nominations of almost all the parties were rejected except one Tamil paty I guess it is TNA or Federal Party.  So do not just blame one party or RW but blame ourselves.


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The caliber of people who want to be in politics and public life have deteriorated to the lowest ebb in Sri lanka.

We see a canceous growth of such people who want to be in power.

No wonder the passport office in Colombo is doing a roaring business.

MR_KARUNA wrote:

The recent news says that election commission has said in his list as this candidate is over 18 last year. I think there was confusion in preparing the list. UNP is going to court. Let’s wait and see what is going to happen.

Anyone knows who was responsible in the party for preparing this list?

There can be two ages.  One age for the body (stated in the birth certificate) and other for the brain.  People who have prpared the list most probably having a brain of a chimpansee and the age stated in the birth cerificate.

UNP is headed by a brainless, backbone less leader so this is the inevitable out come is this.

hanumanth wrote:

It is another example of people just beating the drums without knowing the full news.  Actually the nominations of almost all the parties were rejected except one Tamil paty I guess it is TNA or Federal Party.  So do not just blame one party or RW but blame ourselves.

Are you saying even in Colombo and Gampaha all the nominations submitted by other parties too rejected.  Please enlight me.

We should commend TNA for doing its homework!

Stephen Jones wrote:

What I find strange is that the whole ellection process goes into jeapordy because one person on the list is suspect.

Surely the commonsensical tning to do would be to cross the name off the list and move everything up one.

If Parliament actually debated the laws it passed instead of acting as a cross between a bar brawl and a version of Big Brother, then presumably these kind of situations would have regulations in place to deal with them.

I agree Mr. Jones, we should allow to cut the name, move the other names up and replace it with next of his/her kin of the administrater.