Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

All Party Representative Committee (APRC) Final Report: Executive Summary

Groundviews received the executive summary of the APRC’s final report today. Download the report here.

Salient features covered in the Executive Summary include:

  • Nature of the State
  • Form of Government
  • Status of Buddhism
  • Official languages and national languages
  • Use of the English language
  • Supremacy of the constitution
  • Safeguards against secession
  • Electoral system
  • Power sharing
  • Senate
  • Community Council
  • Distribution of powers between central and provincial
  • National and provincial higher appointments council
  • Amendment procedure