Thankfully, there is at least one Cabinet minister who has the guts to stand up to President Ranil Wickremesinghe and do what he thinks is right. That is the Minister of Sports, Roshan Ranasinghe, currently at the centre of...
There was a time when it seemed as if it would never happen but Keheliya Rambukwella has finally lost the coveted Health portfolio. Ultimately listening to public opinion, President Ranil Wickremesinghe replaced him with...
Last Saturday, he walked into the convention of the United National Party (UNP) he leads and declared that presidential elections will be held on schedule in 2024. Not stopping at that, he declared that general elections will also be...
Will he, or won’t he? That is the question that everyone in politics seems to be asking these days: will President Ranil Wickremesinghe conduct the next presidential election as constitutionally required, at least by October 2024?
In recent weeks there...
Last week, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment that could turn Sri Lanka’s political equation topsy-turvy, provided political parties study the verdict and act in an astute manner.
The highest court in the land declared that the expulsion of...
For those who have lived long enough to remember events of nearly fifty years ago April 1974 was when the government of then Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike sealed Independent Newspapers Limited, popularly known as the ‘Davasa’ group. It was...
Sri Lanka’s sixth Executive President Maithripala Sirisena is a busy man these days. He is busy driving the final nail into the coffin of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), which is well and truly dead and buried, murdered...
When Ranil Wickremesinghe unexpectedly became President in July last year upon the sudden resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his solitary United National Party (UNP) National List seat in Parliament fell vacant. As party leader, Wickremesinghe could have nominated anyone to...
After all the hype, the much-awaited Channel 4 documentary has seen the light of day and raised a storm of protest in Sri Lanka, but what, if any, are its implications on the country’s volatile political landscape?
In a nutshell,...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s defence of Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella is an interesting phenomenon. A No-confidence Motion (NCM) against the minister is in progress at the time of writing but, while Rambukwella is likely to survive this vote, it is...
At least in theory, the next presidential elections are not due for a year. That is because the Constitution decrees that when an incumbent President is replaced by a ‘caretaker’ President for whatever reason, the latter must serve out...
In the current political context, the SLPP needs Ranil Wickremesinghe more than Wickremesinghe needs them. That explains why they continue to support him in Parliament, knowing very well that he is attempting to undermine the foundations of their party.
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