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There is a feeling among a section of the public that the law’s delays were one of the reasons for widespread public disapproval, disappointments and even anger which led to a massive protest vote against the government at the February 10 ele
The outcome of last Saturday’s local government elections has naturally prompted the ruling United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to look back and ponder about what went wrong. Already President Maithripala Sirisena
The battle for power in the Maldives between the incumbent government led by President Abdulla Yameen and the opposition led by a galaxy of leaders headed by former Presidents Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed, is now being fought overseas, wi
As campaign rhetoric reached fever-pitch last week in the run-up to the LG elections on Saturday (10), the government stumbled on an unexpected news-nugget to feed its propaganda mill.
The local government election results are a ‘brutal’ eye-opener for the unity government. The need to perform a deep diagnostic of the two major political parties, their structures and relationships with the electorate, whether in Colombo
It was a spectacularly crushing defeat. Mind boggling as it might have felt at the beginning, now in retrospect, the genesis of this debacle is all too clear. This government, which assumed with a public mandate to govern, simply failed to ‘gov
The people have spoken, as they say. Local Government Elections, like any election, are a test of the regime’s popularity. Well, the people have delivered their verdict: Not up to mark...
Driving on the streets of Colombo a day before Sri Lanka celebrated its 70th Independence Day, I noticed wayside vendors attempting to sell national flags to passers-by. These sellers used a noval...
All those that bought crackers, can burst them justifiably, but it will not sound musical to the ears’ of any of the leaders,’ as the message is clear none will be elected through an election as President or...
We celebrated 70 years (not 30, by the way!) of Independence last week with the attendant pomp and pageantry ; Yet it matters little whether it is 70 or 30 years since independence as....
Sri Lanka, a country strategically positioned in the Indian Ocean, is well in the spheres of attention of the world powers. China, on the one hand, has linked up with Sri Lanka for Strategic Partnership Cooperation.
In today’s crucial and countrywide elections to 341 local councils, a significant feature will be the 25% representation for women for the first time since Sri Lanka achieved universal adult franchise more than 80 years ago. While acknowledging
We are soon going to have a clash between President Donald Trump and international law. This is predictable when one examines the presidential discourse over what to do about North Korea and its possession of nuclear-tipped rockets. He has threatened
As Sri Lanka, conducts its biggest ever local council elections today, we need to reflect on the fact that poverty, unemployment, youth disillusionment, social and institutional degradation and disintegration, and environmental despoliation continues
The rapidity of the turn of events in Tamil Nadu, the southern State of India during the past one year, after the death of Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the powerful Chief Minister of State, is amazing and also interesting.
Freedom: What a great idea it is! As we celebrated this Sunday Sri Lanka’s 70th freedom day, it is relevant to ask how free we are and what freedom meant to us then and today.
Tomorrow Saturday, February 10, 15.8 million people have been called to vote at the long-delayed Local Government Elections to establish 341 councils.
Whatever the results of the Local Council election tomorrow, one important factor is clear. The sovereign people, most of them now well informed largely because of high technology -- will no longer tolerate corrupt politicians.
Politics, elections and the media are necessarily entwined in any democracy. This intertwine has witnessed new dimensions altogether with persons who would otherwise have not got through more than a few words earlier, now having the luxury of takin
Sri Lanka has ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption. However, in 2016, Sri Lanka ranked 95 in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), dropped down the rank by 12 slots when compared to 2015, a report released by Transparency Inte
The major political parties are poor. Their poverty is clearly indicated by the fact that all of them, without exception, are using the language of default option. We hear sentences beginning with ‘at least,’ as in ‘at least now t
An intensive, hard-fought campaign ended at midnight yesterday. After a two-day moratorium, the four major parties go before the court of the sovereign people on Saturday for their verdict on who should control 341 local councils in all parts of th
Election platforms can turn men into super heroes; they can turn politicians into inspiring leaders; they can drive audiences into enraged mobs; they can also turn themselves into caricatures of comical proportions, from which empty rhetoric might
Political parties - carry no credible second strings or alternate leadership –are calibrated according to the leaders’ needs. The problem lies in getting voters to walk a distance to a booth to vote for a dowdy politician.?
Political parties contesting Saturday’s local government elections will have to end their campaigning at midnight today marking what the Elections Commission describes as the “period of silence”. It is worth noting that the electi
Is honesty really a virtue and does anybody want to hear the truth? It makes no sense to vote for and work for a system that makes the selfish rich and the selfless poor
Now the ground reality in Sri Lanka in terms of gender equality is a scenario like this. Women can enter prestigious professions such as law, medicine, engineering, civil service, etc. without any obstruction; in fact the number of
The Maldives is an archipelago of hundreds of tiny, idyllic islands, many of which are luxury resorts attracting Westerners in search of a quiet retreat. But the quietness of the country appears to be restricted to its physical features.
The primary thrust among global commentators last week was on dissecting and analysing the State of the Union address delivered by President Donald Trump. He tried to reach out to an American public exhausted by divisive politics and a waning faith i
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has reportedly urged President Maithripala Sirisena and the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to tone down mutual hostility in the election campaign.
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