Courtesy Hiru News The overall results of the 2020 Parliamentary Elections have been released. The number of votes obtained by the Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna is 6,853,693. They have won 128 seats and 17 National List seats. Therefore SLPP has 145 seats in parliament.  Samagi Jana Balawegaya has obtained 2,771,984 votes. They won 47 seats […]

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Courtesy TRTWORLD Close to 70 percent of eligible Sri Lankans voted in Wednesday’s election to elect a 225-member parliament, shrugging off coronavirus fears. Sri Lanka’s ruling Rajapaksa brothers and their allies have won an unprecedented two-thirds majority in a parliamentary election, according to official results released early on Friday. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Party […]

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Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Decisive parliamentary majority will allow the Rajapaksas to alter the country’s political landscape The likely decisive parliamentary majority secured by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP, or People’s Party) in the island nation’s recent general elections is set to change its political landscape in significant ways. The political opposition to the Rajapaksas […]

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Dr. Sudath Gunasekara රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ඇතුලුව මෙ රටේ වැඩිදෙනගේ අදහස වර්තමාන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිටින 225 ගෙදර යවා හොර බොරු වංචා දූෂන නැති උගත්, චරිතවත් ජනහිතකාමි, රටට ආදරය කරන අලුත්ම නියෝජිත පිරිසක් 2020 පර්ලිමේතුවට පත්කල යුතුය කියාය. එම කියමනෙහි ලොකු ඇත්තක් තිබෙන නමුත් ප්‍රායෝගිකව එය කළ නොහකිනිසාත්, එසේම පර්ලිමේන්තුවෙ සිටින සියලු දෙනාම ඒ ගනයට නොවැටෙන නිසාත්, කිරි […]

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Courtesy Daily Mirror According to the official election results declared so far, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna has won a landslide victory. It is my belief that the hope of establishing a parliament with a capacity of empowering the “Vistas of Prosperity” policies will be achieved by tomorrow, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said this evening.

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Courtesy Mailonline Sri Lanka’s ruling party took a clear lead Thursday in early results from parliamentary elections in which the dominant Rajapaksa family hope to strengthen their grip on power. Counting in the island’s south showed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) with 72 percent of the vote. Since the prime minister’s […]

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