{"id":74700,"date":"2018-02-12T06:25:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74700"},"modified":"2018-02-12T06:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:25:38","slug":"lg-election-2018-voters-gave-the-village-to-mahinda-for-17-years-the-nation-to-sirisena-alliance-for-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/12\/lg-election-2018-voters-gave-the-village-to-mahinda-for-17-years-the-nation-to-sirisena-alliance-for-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Election 2018: Voters Gave the Village to Mahinda for 17 Years, the Nation to Sirisena Alliance for 5 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><label class=\"selectit\">\u00a0Dilrook Kannangara<\/label><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It is important to decipher the signals of the LG election 2018 correctly without bias. The king (voter) has spoken. But the arrogant king doesn\u2019t repeat! If his signal is interpreted wrongly, there will be dire consequences for (public) servants. Readers must calmly analyze the outcome without hatred or favour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Although voters gave a clear win for Mahinda\u2019s SLPP, they deliberately avoided giving SLPP 50%. In fact, Mahinda\u2019s party received 2% less votes than January 2015 when he was replaced by Sirisena. Put it differently, the Sirisena Alliance (DNA, Swan) retained its 6.2 million votes while Mahinda lost 700,000 votes from his 5.8 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It means the voter gave the village to Mahinda for another 5 years and at the same time gave the Sirisena alliance another 2 years to work together. Mahinda has been winning the village since 2006 and with this extension his continuing reign over the village goes on for 17 years (until 2023). Sirisena has already spent 3 years and with this extension for his alliance, he can legally and morally stay on for another 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>JVP has dramatically improved their national standing for its small size from August 2015 and TNA has also increased their share within the Swan Alliance. UNP has suffered since August 2015. SLFP managed to hang in there. SLPP will be elated with their performance. All parties are now looking forward for the provincial council election.<\/p>\n<p>Voters want the DNA alliance to keep pursuing the corrupt and punish them. This is particularly true about JVP and SLFP voters making up 20%. They are the kingmakers of any national election. Sirisena must recognize at least now that he cannot rely on Ranil and Sagala to deliver FCID goods. He must hand over the function to a competent minister or do it himself. Sirisena must realize that he would be sitting on a vote base of 56% had he punished the culprits by now. SLPP and UNP owners must not think voters delivered justice. Voters have no intention of messing with the courts system. They cannot do so even if they wished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While the village needs Mahinda policies and the nation Sirisena policies (according to voters), they also want the two policies to work together. Hope politicians of all sides hear this loud and clear. Next stop PC elections followed by national elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dilrook Kannangara It is important to decipher the signals of the LG election 2018 correctly without bias. The king (voter) has spoken. But the arrogant king doesn\u2019t repeat! If his signal is interpreted wrongly, there will be dire consequences for (public) servants. Readers must calmly analyze the outcome without hatred or favour. 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