HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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The individual voters
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The local governments
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The central government
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Both the central and local governments
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Detailed explanation-1: -In a unitary state, the central government commonly delegates authority to subnational units and channels policy decisions down to them for implementation. A majority of nation-states are unitary systems.
Detailed explanation-2: -The definition of a unitary government or unitary state is a system of political organization with a central supreme government which holds the authority over and makes the decisions for subordinate governments.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sri Lanka continues to be, for all practical purposes, a unitary system where the national government has all the powers.
Detailed explanation-4: -A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as one single unit in which the central government has the supreme power. The division of powers is in favour of the Centre and highly inequitable from the federal angle.