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Minister Rajapakshe resigned from the CC in December last year after he was removed from the Justice and Buddha Sasana ministerial portfolio.He said the term of JVP MP Vijitha Herath and UPFA MP John Seneviratne is also due to end in the next two months.“According to the Constitution, the same person cannot be re-appointed to the CC. Therefore new appointments are due shortly,” he pointed out.

The 10-member CC is the apex decision making body that recommends the appointments to the Independent Commissions and high ranking positions such as the Attorney General, Auditor General, Parliament Secretary General, IGP, Chief Justice and Supreme Court Judges etc.Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Opposition Leader R.Sampanthan will continue in the CC as ex-officio members. The CC is also comprised of three civil society representatives and their three-year term is due to end by September 22. Dr.A.T.Ariyaratne, Dr.Radhika Coomaraswamy and former Supreme Court Judge Shibly Aziz are the currently serving civil society members of the CC.