The Constitutional Council (CC) is a 10-member constitutional authority in Sri Lanka tasked with maintaining independent commissions and monitoring it affairs. established first in 2000 under the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka and again in 2015 under the Nineteenth Amendment. In 2010, Mahinda Rajapaksa established the Parliamentary Council to replace it. After Maithripala Sirisena was elected President, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe presented the new reforms to reinstate a new Constitutional Council in 2015. The Constitutional Council is aimed at depoliticising the public service.