With the likelihood of an electoral collapse of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) still reasonably high, the country’s main opposition the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and the leftist National People’s Power (NPP) appear to be…
Read More...

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe denied wide claims of a crackdown on protesters and said he will allow non-violent protests amid continuous arrests of protesters who were instrumental in forcing the former leader to resign
Read More...

Sri Lanka’s political crisis looks likely to continue this week after the ruling party decided to nominate the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, as its candidate to be the next president
Read More...

Despite no member of the Rajapaksa family being in real power at present, former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa-led Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will be the key in electing a new president due to the Parliament majority it has,…
Read More...

Sri Lanka’s opposition parties met Sunday (10) to agree on a new government a day after the president and prime minister offered to resign following the most dramatic day of months-long turmoil, with protesters storming the leaders’ homes…
Read More...

While most Sri Lankan mainstream political parties have welcomed the Indian aid, its detractors among the leftists and the nationalists are fearful about the increasing power India wields over the country and its impact on Sri Lanka’s…
Read More...

The protests highlight the dramatic fall of the Rajapaksas from Sri Lanka’s most powerful political dynasty in decades to a family grasping to retain power. Despite accusations of atrocities during the civil war, Gotabaya and Mahinda, who…
Read More...

The past two months has seen substantial declines in favourability of all politicians. This has affected politicians in both government, such as the President and Prime Minister, and opposition politicians such as Opposition and Samagi Jana…
Read More...

COLOMBO — Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa appealed for protesters to end the weeks of mass demonstrations that have called for the government to resign over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades
Read More...

The fake weekend global media alert that Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa had quit at the end of a day-long anti-government public protests, supported though not formally sponsored by the political Opposition, should explain the…
Read More...