Transnational Govt election in April 2010

(November 07, Washington, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Advisory Committee for the Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam is making arrangements to hold the elections in April 2010. Over the coming two months it expects to conduct consultations with the Tamil Diaspora community to get feedback to its proposal to date and to discuss some of the questions that have been raised.

The press release said:

The work of the Advisory Committee for the Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam is continuing at a steady pace with the aim of releasing a full report at the end of December 2009. We continue to receive suggestions as well as specific questions from the Tamil Diaspora. The Country wise Working Groups (CWG) which were announced last month have initiated their work. We are set to announce the names of coordinators and CWGs for other countries where Tamils live in large numbers in the coming weeks.

We continue to receive suggestions as well as specific questions from the Tamil Diaspora. The Country wise Working Groups (CWG) which were announced last month have initiated their work. We are set to announce the names of coordinators and CWGs for other countries where Tamils live in large numbers in the coming weeks.

Progress is being made toward holding elections in April 2010. Over the coming two months we expect to conduct consultations with the Tamil Diaspora community to get feedback to our proposal to date and to discuss some of the questions that have been raised.

We wish to take this opportunity to clarify our position on a few matters that have been raised in recent weeks. As expressed in the first press statement in June 2009, the task of forming a Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam is a fundamentally democratic effort to unite all Tamil entities.

It has been our stated position that direct elections provide the best opportunity for the Diaspora community to exercise their democratic rights. This alone will give legitimacy to the PTGTE. Therefore, no one other than the directly elected members will make up the PTGTE, which in the first instance will perform the specific function of becoming a Constituent Assembly. The directly elected members of the PTGTE will ultimately decide on what kind of relationship PTGTE will have with existing and newly created national level bodies in carrying out its functions of governance. We are aware of current initiatives to create new national level organizations through an electoral process in some countries.

We welcome all democratic initiatives. However at this time we neither support nor oppose these initiatives because, as stated earlier, to do so would be presumptuous and undemocratic on the part of the Formation Committee.

-Sri Lanka Guardian