“Assures participation of women and youth at rational percentage levels.”

“Allows abolition of ‘national list’ enabling a reduction of the number of MPs to a rational 196.”

“The simple voters with minimum knowledge about candidates need not worry about selecting ‘horses’ from lists of ‘ponies’ as they have to mark ‘X’ only against their preferred party/alliance, based on a ‘Prosecutable Election Manifesto’, making their task at polling booth a ‘cake-walk.’”

“The latter will meet the real objectives of an Election and result in a dramatic time and cost reduction in the total Election process of the NEC thereby enhancing its work quality and productivity.”

“Pre -election publicity during the ‘Public clearance’ round will help to reduce the total campaign expenditure of contesting parties.”

“Since the enlarged party responsibilities and workload will require a robust Party Constitution, the number of contesting parties will get rationalised.”

“The National Election Commission (NEC), to rationally pre-determine a fixed number of seats to each District, inter alia based on the number of registered voters and the delimitation report etc..”

“Abolish the complex MMV and corrupt Preference Voting (‘Manapey’) systems and require parties to submit their district nomination lists by way of a maximum of 160 electorate-level sub-lists of ‘Country-first Political Professionals’ in merit/priority order as described below.”

“To maintain uniformity in measuring meritocracy, NEC to mandate a common set of eligibility criteria and a structured interview scoring system for all applicants from parties/groups across the board, when nominating candidates in merit/priority order at electorate level.”

“To ensure a reasonable women and youth representation in the PCs (Eligible for the Parliament too), NEC to mandate all Electorate level Interview Panels appointed by the contesting parties, to submit their preliminary sub-lists in merit/priority order, subject to ‘top-ranking’ of specified numbers for men, women and youth below 35, according to a NEC laid down formula (Example annexed to writer’s eBooklet.)”

“To guarantee transparency in nomination of genuine ‘Country-first political professionals’ as representatives of sovereign voters in merit/priority order, the NEC shall invite primary ‘objections/clearance’ from the public, for all preliminary electorate-level nomination sub-lists in the National press.”

“NEC will first allocate the number of seats won by parties at district level, within the predetermined number of seats fixed for each district (as per 1 above), based solely on their official district valid vote percentage which guarantees an ‘equal/proportionate value’ to each valid vote.”

“Such number of district seats will be assigned with Country-first Political professionals (men, women and youth) nominated in merit/priority order, to entitled electorates.”

“The total electoral process being very simple, will become instantly graspable, productive, more meaningful and non-violent due to the abolition of corrupt ‘manapey’ and complex MMV systems.”

“Since simple voters will be required to mark only one ‘X’ at any election, more than one major election/referendum can be held on a single day.”

“Election results can be announced by midnight.”

“Towards the above end, the writer, in March 2024, published a comprehensive eBooklet titled, ‘A Sovereign Voter’s Crucial ‘System Changes’ to Political and Electoral Systems in Sri Lanka with Pathway and Benefits’ in both Sinhala and English.”

“It was last updated in 2025.”