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Presentatation

on
power sharing

GOVERNMENT
IN
SRILANKA
AND
BELGIUM

GOVERNMENT
IN
SRILANKA

Politics of Sri Lanka takes place in a frame work of


a president representatives democratic republic,
whereby the president of Sri Lanka is both head of
state and head of government, and of a multi-party
system. Executive power is exercised by the
government .
Legislative power is vested in both
the government and parliament.

Constitutional development
At independence in 1948,Sri Lanka called Ceylon, was a

commonwealth realm, with the monarch representation by


the governor general.
The parliament was bicameral, consisting of a senate and
a House of Representatives.
In 1978, a new constitution was adopted, which provided
for an executive president, and the legislature was
renamed parliament

Political conditions

Political conditions Sri


Lanka's two major political parties the
United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka
Freedom Party (SLFP) embrace democratic
values, international nonalignment, and
encouragement of Sinhalese culture. Past
differences between the two on foreign and
economic policy have narrowed. Generally,
the SLFP envisions a broader role for the
state, and the UNP a broader role for
capitalism.

Sri Lanka has a multi-party democracy that


enjoys surprising stability given the high
levels of political violence, especially that
which occurred under the UNP regime of
1977-1993. Recent elections have seen
decreasing election violence between the
SLFP and the UNP, compared to the period
1977-1994. Elections have been cleaner ,
without the rampant impersonation and
vote-rigging which characterized the
1982 Presidential Election, the notorious
Referendum of the same year, the
Presidential Election

Politics in Sri Lanka so dirty, absolutely


filthy and a terrible game - President
Chandrika Kumaratunga President
Chandrika Kumaratunga, the daughter of
two Prime Ministers, has been a member
of Sri Lanka's First Family for half a
century and President since 1994. She
spoke to TIME's Alex Perry at President's
House in Colombo. "In Sri Lanka, politics
is a terrible, terrible game. So dirty,
absolutely filthy. Decent people do not
want to have anything to do with it

Government
IN
Belgium

Monarchy in Belgium is
constitutional and popular in nature.
The hereditary monarch, at present
Albert II, is the head of state and is
officially called King of the Belgians.

The executive branch of the Belgian federal government


consists of ministers and secretaries of state ("junior", or
deputy-ministers who do not sit in the Council of
Ministers) drawn from the political parties which form the
government coalition. Formally, the ministers are
appointed by the King. The Cabinet is chaired by the
Prime Minister and the Ministers head executive
departments of the government. They have no seat in
Parliament. Some federal ministers do not have seats in
the Parliament.

The

former Cabinet, the Verhofstadt III Cabinet, consisted of


members of the Flemish Christian Democrats (CD&V), the
Walloon Christian Democrats (CDH),Flemish Liberals (VLD),
the Walloon Liberals (MR), and the Walloon Socialists (PS) and
took the oath of office in the hands of the Belgian King on
December 21, 2007. It was an interim government due to the
difficult 2007 Belgian government formation and held office
until March 20, 2008 when it was replaced by Leterme.

The Leterme I held office until December 30, 2008 (see the
accusation of political interference in the Justice: Fortis
gate) and was replaced by Van Rompuy I. The Leterme II
government succeeded the Van Rompuy government on
24 November 2009, after Herman Van Rompuy became the
first President of the European Council. On 22 April 2010,
Leterme again offered the resignation of his cabinet to the
king.

Created By :DHRUV GUPTA

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