Sri Lanka Presidential Election: Fate Sealed? – OpEd
On October 9, 2019, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) formally announced that it would support and campaign for Gotabhaya
Read moreOn October 9, 2019, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) formally announced that it would support and campaign for Gotabhaya
Read moreWhen Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was formally nominated to be the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) candidate for the upcoming presidential election,
Read moreSri Lankans will face a presidential election in about four months. However, no major political party was in a hurry to announce its
Read moreRecently, R. Sambanthan, leader of the Tamil National Alliance, asserted that “there is a need to think about an armed
Read moreNot many analysts and researchers paid attention to the nexus between Sri Lanka and ISIS until the Easter Sunday Massacre
Read moreOn April 24, 2019, three Catholic churches and three high-end hotels in Colombo were blown up leading to the death
Read moreMany people in Sri Lanka thought that President Sirisena would leave office in January 2020. The conventional wisdom was that
Read moreSri Lankans have been trying to abolish the executive presidential system for a long time. Ever since the system was
Read moreSri Lanka’s major political parties have been making arrangements and strategic moves with the forthcoming presidential election in mind. Prime
Read moreSri Lanka’s experiment with hybrid governments failed miserably. By hybrid government, I mean a government that entails the president from
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