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Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) National Organiser Basil Rajapaksa this week made it clear that those who left them during the Yahapalana government would be welcomed back, but they need to maintain the distance. He clearly meant political distancing, and not social distancing. He was referring to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) members who [...]
So many to choose from, so little choice
My dear Voter, I thought I must write to you today because, three days from now, you will be entrusted with the task of choosing those who govern us for the next five years. It is a responsibility that comes your way once in a while and it is your duty to exercise it with [...]
Post-election expectations of economic recovery and growth: Immediate actions and long ‑term vision
On the eve of Sri Lanka’s 17th parliamentary elections, people’s expectations are for a stable Government that would navigate the economy from its current economic crisis to long term economic stability and growth. Immediate measures to avert a further worsening of the economic conditions and a vision and policies for long term economic growth and [...]
A circus before the elections as people starve and politicians grin
On the eve of a General Election that promises to be (ominously) portentous for Sri Lanka, the inglorious jostles with the plainly ridiculous. Incredulous attempts to deflect responsibility A prominent criminal investigator long in the crosshairs of this Government and once in the forefront of majorly controversial cases ranging from massive corruption scandals to enforced [...]
Say, Mr. Chairman of the EC, does COVID strike only at night?
Eyebrows were raised quizzingly over the announcement Election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya made last month in Kandy on June 21 of his extraordinary decision to count the ballot papers of the August 5 election on the following day and not on the same evening immediately after polling had closed. The raised brow regained its usual countenance [...]
This right royal election
Don’t get me wrong. This is no reference to those I used to call the messy types who emerged from various nooks and crannies to collect their precious ministerial certificates and other types of authoritative ‘parchment’ papers that elevated them to positions of importance. Several of them came from a school by the Race Course [...]
Polls at last; lacklustre election campaign ends tonight
President likely to form new government soon to start work on tackling key economic and pandemic-related issues Western diplomats show keen interest in north-east politics; TNA faces tough challenges, but receives diaspora support Speculation about what would happen to the UNP and Sajith’s SJB after the polls? Most Sri Lankans have shown a lack [...]
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