Her track-record in the past 5 years of manifold obstacles, is impressive. The requisite financial outlay is found through the national budget. The greatest triumph of President Kumaratunga lies in the eradication of the black terror that gripped Sri Lanka in the pre-CBK epoch. In this period a full and frank discussion among all parties of the PA have taken place without the use of party whip. Discussion with the LTTE is scheduled to follow.
Democracy posits a representation based on a free exercise of the vote.
The affiliation to democratic principles of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is evidenced by the initial round of discussions taking place among parties that have been democratically elected and the LTTE for reasons of its own has never sought to be selected by the vote of the electorate. President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is both democratic and profoundly people- based. President J. R. Jayewardene's first act was to declare himself President of Sri Lanka and effectively disenfranchise the voter through arrogating to himself all governmental power. We all remember what President J. R. Jayewardene's Govt. Similarly, contrast the dignity she accords the judiciary with the threats of the LTTE to judicial officers working in the North in a bid to prevent the undertaking of investigations into the unmarked graves found at Chemmani and the mass grave found at the Duraiappa Stadium.