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Geography
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History
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Chapter Notes – Power Sharing
• Story of Belgium
• Story of Sri Lanka
• Majoritarianism in Sri Lanka
• Accommodation in Belgium
• Why power sharing is desirable?
• Forms of power-sharing
• Belgium is a small country in Europe which has a population of a little over one crore.
• Out of the total population of the country, 59 percent lives in the Flemish region and speaks Dutch
language. Another 40 percent people live in the Wallonia region and speak French. Remaining one percent of the Belgians speak German.
→ This made Dutch-speaking community angry as they the benefit of economic development and education much later.
• There are about 7 percent Christians, who are both Tamil and Sinhala.
Majoritarianism in Sri Lanka
• The democratically elected government adopted a series of Majoritarian policy measures to establish Sinhala supremacy. These are:
→ Sinhala as the only official language.
→ The governments followed preferential policies that favoured Sinhala applicants for university positions and government jobs.
• These decisions gradually increased the feeling of alienation among the Sri Lankan Tamils.
• The Sri Lankan Tamils launched parties and struggles for the recognition of Tamil as an official language, for regional autonomy and equality of opportunity in securing education and jobs.
• By 1980s several political organisations were formed demanding an independent Tamil Eelam (state) in northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka.
• It soon turned into Civil War.
Accommodation in Belgium
→ Constitution prescribes that the number of Dutch and French-speaking ministers shall be equal in the central government.
→ Brussels has a separate government in which both the communities have equal representation.
community which has the power regarding cultural, educational and language-related issues.
• Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy.