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The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka (13A) is amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, passed in 1987, which created Provincial Councils in Sri Lanka. [1] This amendment also made Sinhala and Tamil the official languages of the country and declared English the "link language". [2]
J. R. Jayewardene who came to office in July 1977 with a five-sixths majority passed the second amendment to the 1972 Constitution on 4 October 1977, which made the presidency an executive post. Under its provisions, then Prime Minister Jayawardene automatically became the first Executive President of Sri Lanka on 4 February 1978. [8]
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The Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was an accord signed in Colombo on 29 July 1987, between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene.The accord was expected to resolve the Sri Lankan Civil War by enabling the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act of 1987.
Under the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord signed in 1987 and the subsequent 13th Amendment to the Constitution, the Government of Sri Lanka agreed to devolve some authority to the provinces. Provincial councils are directly elected for five-year terms.
Following pressure from the Indian government in 1987, [25] the Thirteenth amendment to the Constitution was passed, which stated that, "the official language of Sri Lanka is Sinhala" while "Tamil shall also be an official language," with English as a "link language."
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which stripped the president of many of his reserve powers; Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa, which re-enacted provisions of the Twelfth Amendment; Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, which created Provincial Councils in Sri Lanka
The 20th Amendment was a frequent political objective of the ruling party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and a core campaign objective of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration, which recorded landslide victories in both the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential elections, as well as the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election. On 22 October 2020, the ...