Question

Predict: If Srilanka was to adopt the Belgium style of power-sharing with the ethnic groups, what type of changes do you think they would have to introduce in their constitution?

Answer 1

Explanation:

1. They have to adopt a community sharing power.
2. no single community can take decision unilaterally.
3. The third form of government that is community government must be set up to deal the issues regarding language,beliefs etc.
4. equal sharing of powers without majoritarism .
5. no community should feel alineated.

Answer 2

In their constitution, srilanka introduce equal opportunities to power sharing of sinhala and tamil speaking people.

Explanation:

• In overall population in belgium, peoples are speaking three languages.
• 59 percentage of people speaking dutch language, french speaking people are 40 percentage and 1 percentage of people are speaking german language.
• So, leaders of belgium are decided to provide a arrangement to power sharing among the diversed people of the country.
• The constitution of belgium was amended four times between 1970 to 1993.
• The constitution provide the equal opportunity to french and dutch speaking ministers in central government and the state government.
• In srilanka 75 percentage of people speaking sinhala, 24 percentage speaking tamil language and 1 percentage is other languages.
• But, srilanka is opposite to belgium, srilanka does not provide the equal opportunity to sinhala and tamil speaking people in their government.
• In srilanka, majority of the leader came from sinhala community, they are dominance in srilanka government, they are refused to power  sharing with tamils.
• So, srilanka provide the equal opportunity to both tamil and sinhala speaking people in their government.

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