Any changes to the Colombo port city have no constitutional blockades, said former minister and lawyer Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe.
With 149 votes received in favour of Colombo Port City Economic Commission act no. 11 of 2021, it cannot be considered as having received a two-third parliamentary majority as per clause 157 of the constitution, he said in a letter to president Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
Incidentally, Rajapakshe did not vote in favour of the act.
He said president Dissanayake now has the opportunity to correct the historic wrong done, while explaining the ulterior motive behind the move by the rulers at the time to introduce an act in parliament, although the project could easily have been carried out through an agreement with the investor.
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