Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada.  Sri Lanka, a nation troubled by decades of civil strife and a separatist war  has just concluded a parliamentary election bringing back the war-winning government. Western observes have keenly focused on the North, with its Tamil population (5% of the Nations population) previously controlled by the separatist Tigers. Their  MaVeer”  (suicide fighters  […]

Pathfinder Foundation Now that the parliamentary elections are concluded, the focus of the new government should shift to the serious business of fixing the economy. COVID-19 has hit Sri Lanka’s economic outlook harder than expected. A gloomy prognosis suggests a scenario of negative economic growth, high unemployment and rising foreign debt in 2020 and 2021. […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Aug.10 (newsin.asia) — Recognizing the safety protocols introduced by the Government of Sri Lanka along with standards mandated by Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) to ensure the safety of domestic and international travelers, destination Sri Lanka was recently endowed with the World Travel and Tourism Council’s (WTTC) Safe Travels stamp. Whilst […]

Courtesy Hiru News According to party sources, the nomination of Samagi Janabalawegaya National List MPs will be postponed for a few more days. It is reported that this is due to the internal discussions regarding the preparation of the list. The Samagi Janabalawegaya won seven National List seats in this Parliamentary election. The party leadership […]

Courtesy Hiru News Ranil Wickremesinghe decides to step down as UNP leader.  Ravi Karunanayake, Daya Gamage, Akila Viraj & Vajira Abeywardena have been nominated for the post of UNP leader according to Akila Viraj Kariyawasam – UNP General Secretary. The final decision is to be taken in consultation in the coming week.

JR, if alive, would be a very happy man. His constitution after 42 years saw a single party win a majority without going on bended knee to minority kingmakers. This victory is special not only because it saw the majority converge again but it also saw some in the minorities take a step forward to […]

by Dr Garvin Karunaratne, once G.A. Matara In view of the landslide victory that is in the offing,  it is my humble request that you may please consider a poverty alleviation cum employment creation programme. I enclose my report on the Divisional Development Councils  Programme implemented during Premier Sirimavo  for kind perusal. It is my […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara  Mahanuwara The final results of this election will be stunning for everybody. My forecast of final results will roughly  be  as follows 1The SLPP will get around 175 out of 225 seats in the next Parliament (Eg 150-55 elected and 15 -20 national list)  2 The divided and disarrayed UNP (R+P camps […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන  2015 දී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත 2002 දී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා  සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතට ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරු 07 දෙනෙකු ලබා දී ඇති ඒකමතික තීරණයට පටහැනිව කථානායකවරයාගේ සහතිකය ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 80.1 ව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව වැරදියට යොදා නීතියක් ලෙස පවත්වාගෙන යන බවත්, මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලියන ලද […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් සමගි ජන බලවේගය පක්ෂයද තම ජාතික ලැයිස්තුව සඳහා අපේක්ෂකයන් නම් කර ඇත. මෙවර මැතිවරණය අනුව එම පක්ෂයට ජාතික ලයිස්තු අපේක්ෂකයන් හත්දෙනෙකු වෙන්වී තිබේ. පරාජය වූ කිසිවෙකු ජාතික ලයිස්තුවෙන් යැවීමට එම පක්‍ෂයද කටයුතු කර නැත. එම පක්ෂය විසින් මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයා වෙත නම් කර යවා ඇති ලැයිස්තුව මෙසේය. තිස්ස අත්තනායක හරින් ප්‍රනාන්දු […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The resounding victory of the Rajapaksas has sent a number of politically significant messages. Colombo, August 7 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan parliamentary elections, held on August 5, the results of which were unofficially out on August 7, have sent a number of politically significant messages. These are as follows: Getting Two […]

Courtesy Adaderana Following the United National Party’s unprecedented defeat at the 2020 parliamentary election, the senior leaders of the ‘grand old party’ convened a meeting at headquarters – Sirikotha on Friday evening (08) to discuss the election result and future course of action. Speaking to reporters following the meeting, UNP National Organiser Daya Gamage stated […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan of Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) has secured the highest number of preferential votes in the Batticaloa District. However, the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) managed to claim the victory in the district after polling 79,460 votes (26.66%). The ITAK won 02 seats in the district. The TMVP meanwhile […]

Courtesy Hiru News

Courtesy Hiru News The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna has announced the list of its appointed MPs. As per results of the General Election 2020, the SLPP has secured 17 national list positions. The party says it sent the list of appointees to the Election Commission today (07).

The People have spoken & given a victory that has surprised even the SLPP. The Voice of the People put to pieces any aspirations of a weak government fishing for frogs to cross over. The People have been wise & seen the signals & stopped such. This itself is a clear indication to the new […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

GoSL cannot pooh pooh the issue any longer. We have on the one hand a terrorist group continuing efforts to revive terrorism & we have another set of Tamil politicians who wish to separate Sri Lanka. The LTTE & Tamil politicians are tied by the quest for the same objective of a separate state but […]

By Noor Nizam, Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice”, August 6th., 2020. The advice of “The Muslim Voice” is that the “Mahinda Pela” should see reality now. Though the Muslim political so-called “NEW LEADERS” and “Old leaders” will finally crawl towards President Gotabaya, PM Mahinda, Chamal and Basil […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන (2020.08.05) 1956 ආරම්භ කළ ස්වදේශිකයන්ගේ පළමු ස්වාධීන නෛතික නිදහස් නැගිටීම නෛතික නිදහස් අරගලය විවිධ බාධක මැද ඉදිරියට ගමන් කළේය. ඒ බහුතර ජනතාවගේ භාෂාවට නීතියේ බලය ලබා දීමෙනි. එස්. ඩව්. ආර්. ඩී. බණ්ඩාරනායක එංගලන්තයේ ඔක්ස්ෆර්ඩ් හී අධ්‍යාපන ලැබුවද, සිංහල රාජ්‍ය භාෂාව කරමින් ස්වදේශිකයන් නීතියේ නිදහසේ නැගී සිටුවීමට ගත් ප්‍රයත්නය ශක්තිමත් වූයේ එදා […]

කතු වැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම Lankamag 2015 යහපාලන ආන්ඩු සමයේදි සජිත් ප්‍රෙමදාස මහතා අයතා ලෙස සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ මුදල් භාවිත කර ඇති බවට සාක්ශි කිහිපයක් අප වෙත.ලැබී තිබෙනවා

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP Leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe expressed hopes that today’s general elections would be the last held under the Proportional Representation (PR) system in Sri Lanka. Hopefully this would be the last general elections held in this country under the PR system. We proposed a mixed system […]

Courtesy TRTWorld Sri Lankans vote in large numbers despite the Covid-19 pandemic as the ruling Rajapaksa brothers sought to expand their mandate through the virus-delayed parliamentary polls. Sri Lankans have voted to elect a new Parliament that is expected to give strong support to the powerful and popular Rajapaksa brothers. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected […]

Courtesy Hiru News President says as the 1st South Asian country to hold General Elections amidst Covid-19, the 71% islandwide voter turnout reflects the confidence of Sri Lankans on the Government’s efforts in controlling the pandemic

Courtesy Hiru News The National Election Complaints Management Center and the District Election Complaints Management Centers have received 337 complaints regarding election law violations today, the Elections Commission stated. The total number of complaints received after the announcement of the election is 8362. Meanwhile, a 32 year old man who photographed the ballot paper at […]