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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The writer examines the background and the impediments on the way to fully implementing 13A.
Is all the effort that Ranil Wickremesinghe is putting in to implementing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution for real, or is it a...
Basil’s entreaty to Ranil to save the party from predators such as Lanza points to something like a political divorce.
The SLPP is not about policies or principles. It is quite simply a family project, of Rajapaksas.
It would...
It was President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s uncle J.R. Jayewardene who
was known as the ‘Old Fox’ of Sri Lankan politics, a sobriquet earned by
his maturity in age when he became the country’s leader and also his
reputation as a scheming Machiavellian politician....
The health sector in the country, once a proud emblem of Sri Lanka’s dominance in social advancement in the region is now in a shambles. The government, it appears, couldn’t care less.
It was just a few years ago that...
The only face-saving measures Wickremesinghe has adopted are sticking to a programme of economic reform that has alleviated the acute hardships of essential goods and services such as gas, fuel, and electricity, which were prevalent around this time...
The cold war between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) had a public display of hostility last week, in what turned out to be a good barometer of the tensions between the President and his...
Some of its high-profile politicians are hedging their bets and biding their time.
Many believe the Rajapaksa duos absence from the DDR debate is more a face-saving strategy than being in defiance of Wickremesinghe
The huge hullabaloo last week...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who just returned from a European tour that included visits to Britain and France has an urgent task to perform: appoint an Inspector General of Police (IGP).
Incumbent IGP Chandana Wickramaratne’s original term of office ended in...
The political cold war between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the governing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is hotting up- and it appears Wickremesinghe is the first to blink.
For several months, the dispute has been simmering and has been spoken...
