CPSL tells public servants:

Exercise franchise with caution, intelligence

The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) wishes to draw the attention of the public servants to their civic responsibility of exercising their franchise, with caution and intelligence in electing their representatives to the Legislature when they go for postal voting on March 25, 2010.

They are called upon not to be led by false and unimplementable promises of the UNP and the DNA or carried away by the unrealisable dreams of the TNA.

The CPSL statement adds: "The public servants through their own experience have rejected those political parties who follow neo-liberalist economic policies committed for reduction of the public service and an end to state intervention.

"It stresses the imperative need for a Parliament with representatives of higher quality in order to convent the Parliament into a real legislature from its present state of mockery, vituperation and irresponsibility.

"Public servants who form nearly 14 percent of the eligible voters are educated, intelligent and knowledgeable enough not to be carried away by high-pressure T.V. advertisements, flashy newspaper advertisements and cut-outs, in the exercise of their preferences to choose a well-deserving representative to the Parliament. "It is also necessary to draw their attention to the need for selecting a representative of the working class in the exercise of their preferences. In this regard, the Left Parties in the U.P.F.A have through their nominations offered the opportunity for the public servants to ensure a fair representation of the Left Movement in the new Parliament.

"Taking into account the challenges posed by the current realities of the world developments and political trends and also the impending domestic challenges the country demands a new Legislature of people's representatives of higher quality.

"The Communist Party therefore calls upon the public servants to observe the above criteria in the exercise of their preferences in electing their representatives to the new Legislature," states CPSL General Secretary DEW Gunasekara in the statement.