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Premier, Ranil set to break CC deadlock
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe are to meet on Tuesday to finalize the nominees to fill the vacancies in the Constitutional Council.

According to the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, five persons have to be appointed by the President to the Constitutional Council, on the nomination of both the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader.

The three-year term of office of the five previous members ended in March 2005 and there has been a delay in making the new appointments with no agreement between the two main political parties on who the nominees should be.

Unless the Constitutional Council is constituted soon, appointments to several other commissions such as the Police Commission, the Public Service Commission, the Human Rights Commission and the Finance Commission too could get stalled as the members to these Commissions have to be recommended by the Constitutional Council.
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