political system of Sri Lanka and comparison with political system of Pakistan

2. POLITICAL CULTURE OF SRI LANKA
COMPARED WITH
POLITICAL CULTURE OF PAKISTAN

3. GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA
SEMI PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM

4. EXECUTIVE BRANCH
• The President, directly elected for a five-year
term, is head of state, head of government,
and commander in chief of the armed forces.
• Responsible to Parliament for the exercise of
duties under the constitution and laws.
• The President appoints and heads a cabinet
of ministers responsible to Parliament.
• The President's deputy is the prime minister.

5. ELECTIONS
• Sri Lanka elects on national level a head of
state - the president - and a legislature.
• The president is elected for a five-year term
by the people.
• The Parliament has 225 members, elected for
a five-year term.

6. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
• The President may summon, suspend, or end a
legislative session and dissolve Parliament any
time after it has served for one year.
• The primary modification is that the party that
receives the largest number of valid votes in
each constituency gains a unique “bonus seat”.
• Since its independence in 1948, Sri Lanka has
remained a member of the Commonwealth of
Nations.

7. JUDICIAL BRANCH
• The judiciary is the system of courts that
interprets and applies the law in the country.
• It is set out in the constitution, which defines
courts as independent institutions within the
traditional framework of check and balances.
• The Sri Lankan courts are presided over
by professional judges, judges of the Supreme
Court are appointed by the President.
• Sri Lanka has a legal system which is an
amalgam of English common law, Roman-Dutch
civil law and Customary law.

8. GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM

9. EXECUTIVE BRANCH
• The Prime Minister of Pakistan, is the
executive head of government of Pakistan.
• The President of Pakistan is a ceremonial
figurehead, a ceremonial head of state
representing the unity of the country.

10. ELECTIONS
• There has been four times that the martial
law has been in effect.
• Through a general election where the leader
of the majority winning party is selected to
be the Prime Minister.
• All members of the federal legislature, the
Parliament, are directly elected.
• Elections in Pakistan take place every five
years by universal adult suffrage.

11. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
• The legislative branch has two houses;
• The National Assembly is the lower house and
has 342 members. 272 are elected directly by the people,
while 70 seats are reserved for women and religious
minorities.
• The Senate is the upper house and has 104
senators elected indirectly by members of provincial
assemblies for six-year terms.

12. JUDICIAL BRANCH
• The judiciary consists
– Supreme Court of Pakistan
– Provincial High Courts
– District Courts
– Anti-terrorism courts
– Sharia courts
– Environmental courts
• The Supreme Court of Pakistan consists of a Chief
Justice, and Senior Justices appointed by the
President after consultation with the Chief Justice of
Pakistan.