Clarification

The following quote of the front page article under the title “Do not make CC a puppet of Executive: PC Upul Jayasuriya,” which was carried on Wednesday, February 14th Daily Mirror print edition should be attributed to SJB leader Sajith Premadasa and it has been inadvertently attributed to Upul Jayasuriya PC, who is the head of the Samagi Lawyers Federation. We regret the error.

He said the President had made statements on several recent occasions indicating that the Constitutional Council was part of the Executive and that it should function under the purview of the latter.   “We would like to remind the President that the Constitutional Council was established to control certain Executive powers of the Executive, thus it should not behave like a puppet,” he said.