By Kassapa
No one was surprised that that Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) won the November 14 general election. However, everyone was surprised at the scale of their victory. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said before the election that he expected an...
By Kassapa
This week’s general election will be a watershed moment in the country’s post-independence political history just as much as the September 21 presidential election was. It will provide a stamp of approval for the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB)...
By Kassapa
As Sri Lanka awaits what might be a historic general election- in as much the last presidential election was- there is a great deal of speculation about the outcome of the poll. The discussion is not so much...
Election to the Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha, concluded last Saturday, has generated much discussion. Many an interpretation has been offered, some of it founded on inaccurate assumptions. While the results of an isolated local council must not be used to extrapolate...
By Kassapa
The news that former President Ranil Wickremesinghe will ‘address the nation’ last week generated much expectation. At least some anticipated that Wickremesinghe would announce his retirement from politics and relinquish leadership of the United National Party (UNP)...
By Kassapa
If being the leader of the government is difficult, leading an opposition is harder. Former Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa is learning this the hard way- and making an absolute mess of it. If he is not...
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By Kassapa
Nominations for the November 14 general election closed this week but the results of the poll are now a foregone conclusion. The Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) will emerge as the single largest party in the next Parliament....
By Kassapa
The presidential election may be over, Anura Kumara Dissanayake may be President but the political arena in Sri Lanka is still red hot, brimming with heat of the general election Dissanayake has called for November 14, six weeks...
The people have spoken. In a historic verdict, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected as the ninth Executive President of Sri Lanka. The results, declared on Sunday, was not without its share of drama: a count of preference votes for...
By Kassapa
Arguably Sri Lanka’s most eagerly awaited presidential election-and potentially its last- reaches a climax on Saturday when the country goes to the polls in which the contest is realistically between President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition Leader and Samagi Jana...
By Kassapa
A familiar theme from President Ranil Wickremesinghe when he hits the campaign trail now has been to suggest that his erstwhile deputy Sajith Premadasa is in third position in the presidential stakes and will lose out on even...
By Kassapa
With just over two weeks remaining of the presidential election campaign, the latest question is whether the United National Party (UNP) and its breakaway faction the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) will arrive at a compromise in the face...
