* A referendum is required for the 22nd Amendment due to contradictions in Articles 83(ආ), 30(2), and 62(2) caused by the mistakes of several lawyers! A lawyer files a petition in the Supreme Court against the 22nd Amendment.

* A referendum is required for the 22nd Amendment due to contradictions in Articles 83(ආ), 30(2), and 62(2) caused by the mistakes of several lawyers! A lawyer files a petition in the Supreme Court against the 22nd Amendment.

In his petition, Attorney-at-Law Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna has pointed out to the Supreme Court that the failure of lawyers to present proper facts to the Supreme Court during the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 2015—in accordance with the 1978 Constitution and Article 9 of the 1972 Constitution—is the root cause of the contradictions among Articles 83(ආ), 30(2), and 62(2) of the Constitution. Attorney-at-Law Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna filed a petition in the Supreme Court today (19.08.2026) challenging the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. He also revealed in his petition that when he filed a fundamental rights petition in 2024 regarding the presidential term of office—concerning the judicial precedent set in 2015 regarding the amendment of Article 70 of the Constitution, which followed a matter heard before a full bench of judges in 2002 regarding the amendment of the same Article 70—he was ordered to pay court costs of Rs. 500,000. Furthermore, he has taken steps to submit documents to the Supreme Court showing that the Chairman of the Election Commission has informed the Presidential Secretary to correct paragraph 83(b) in the English version of the Constitution to match paragraph 83(ආ) of the Sinhala text. In addition, he has extensively argued in his petition regarding the contradictions among Articles 83(ආ), 30(2), and 62(2) of the current Constitution. The lawyer brought to the attention of the Supreme Court through the petition that the cause of this contradiction in the Constitution was due to the errors made by lawyers before the Supreme Court during the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 2015. Copies of this petition have been forwarded to the Speaker of Parliament and the Attorney General. (Expect more details regarding this petition.) Dr. Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Legal Education Program.(19.08.2026) * Translation of the article නීතීඥවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුගේ වැරදි හේතුවෙන් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83.ආ, 30.2, 62.2 ව්‍යවස්ථාවල පරස්පරතා හටගැනීම තුළ 22ට ජනමතවිචාරණයක් ඕනෑ...!නීතීඥවරයෙකු 22ට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට පෙත්සමක් ඉදිරිපත් කරයි....* http://neethiyalk.blogspot.com/2026/08/83-302-622-22-22.html?m=1