Prez will make three changes to 20A – Wimal

The government had decided to introduce three changes to the proposed 20th amendment to the constitution, Minister of Industries, Wimal Weerawansa said yesterday in Colombo.

“During Monday’s Cabinet meeting, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa himself had proposed these changes to the 20A, based on the suggestions made by the Maha Sangha. One of them was not to change clauses regarding auditing in the 19th Amendment,” Weerawansa said.

The Cabinet had also decided that emergency bills be moved only in the case of natural disasters and national security issues.

Weerawansa said said that the limit set by 19A on the number of Ministers too would remain unchanged. However, no discussion had taken place on the section that allowed dual citizens to become MPs, he said.