President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the Supreme Court could set the date for the local government election, but the country’s economic woes cannot be solved in the courtroom even if all the judges, including the Chief Justice, sit together.
The president said that the responsibility of maintaining the economy rests with Parliament and that the 225 members of Parliament should come together and work to restore the shrunken economy.
“However, if the JVP and the SJB want, opportunities could be afforded to members like Harsha and Eran to make their proposals to the IMF.”
He said that there is no other institution in the world except for the International Monetary Fund to support an economically doomed country like this. The President also said to say if there are different avenues to revive the economy.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe stated this while joining businessmen and lawyers of the Kandy district yesterday afternoon (20) in a meeting held at the Presidential Palace in Kandy.
The president emphasized that no one can play with the future of the country and the people.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who further commented, said:
Today’s meeting was called to clarify the current economic situation of the country and to get your views and suggestions on the steps to be taken to recover from this situation. We are going through difficult times today. When the economy of a house collapses, it is felt by the people of the house. If a business collapses, businessmen feel it. But if a country’s economy collapses, it will be felt by the entire population.
