Sri Lanka votes for new parliament as President Dissanayake pushes for majority after securing only 42.3% in presidential ...

President Aruna Kumara Dissanayake, who was elected as President in September, is seeking a majority so that most of the policies of his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna can get parliamentary approval ...

Thursday 7th November, 2024 The NPP’s victory in the September presidential election has catapulted the JVP to the limelight. An otherwise camera-shy JVP General Secretary, Tilvin Silva, faced an ...

About ten months ago, among other things, I informally discussed the devolution of power with Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has generally seen anti-Indian sentiment rise close to its elections, but this has been notably ...

Although its triumph is apparently a foregone conclusion, the Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna (JVP)-led JJB, however ... couldn’t have been achieved if not for President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s steadfast ...

On President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s delegation on the first official visit ... NPP candidates went to the JVP headquarters to sign their nominations. NPP General Secretary Dr Nihal Abeysinghe, who is ...

Much like Mahinda Rajapaksa in ... participation in the deal-making and trading of favours that characterises Sri Lankan party politics. While Dissanayake and other key NPP figures have moved a ...

He is treading cautiously, especially in the economic arena, opting not even to tweak Ranil Wickremesinghe’s deal ... after Mahinda Rajapaksa won the presidential election, the opposition unity ...

Unlike in 2010, the JVP did not join the combined opposition election campaign. At the same time it firmly opposed Mahinda Rajapaksa's attempt to be president for a third term. While not ...