Colombo: In an unusual move, Sri Lankan
President Maithripala Sirisena has sought the Supreme Court's
opinion if he could be the president for six years, a request
which contradicts the amendment he introduced to reduce the
presidential term to five years.
Sirisena, 66, spearheaded the 19th amendment (19A) to the
Constitution in 2015 to prune the presidential term from six
to five years.