Differences between the ruling SLPP and President Ranil Wickremesinghe are coming to a head. The SLPP leadership has registered its protest against Monday’s minor Cabinet reshuffle, which came as a surprise to many.
The SLPP must have expected President Wickremesinghe...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s statement, at the UNP Convention in Colombo, on Saturday, that a presidential election would be held next year, followed by parliamentary polls, and the Provincial Council (PC) elections would be conducted in 2025, has received much...
The government has undertaken to introduce electoral reforms amidst the Opposition’s protests against the indefinite postponement of the local government elections, and an alleged move to do away with the presidential polls due in 2024 by means of a...
Group dynamics are usually problematic and cause dissension and animosity, especially in organizations made up of individuals with competing interests and ambitions. Hence, they often lead to the break-up of political alliances, the collapse of the UNP-led Yahapalana coalition...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has succeeded in shifting his political rivals’ attention from the much-delayed local government polls to the next presidential election due next year so much so that the SJB and the JVP have already named their presidential...
Last week’s Supreme Court (SC) ruling that the SLMC’s decision to strip its MP and current Environment Minister Nazeer Ahamed of his party membership is valid and lawful has given a real scare to political turncoats, who have been...
Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe may be like chalk and cheese, in many respects, but they have a remarkable similarity; both of them are amazingly adept at bouncing back against tremendous odds. Whoever would have thought Mahinda would ever...
The Opposition, the media and civil society organizations let out howls of protests when the government moved to postpone the local government (LG) elections, early this year by preventing the Finance Ministry from allocating funds for the Election Commission....
All issues that crop up in Sri Lanka have one thing in common; they have a very short lifespan. But the Easter Sunday carnage has been different thanks to the tireless efforts of the Catholic Church, especially Archbishop of...
Following London-based Channel 4’s recent programme on the Easter Sunday terrorist bombings, which claimed more than 270 lives and left over 500 persons injured, on April 21, 2019, pressure has been mounting on the SLPP-UNP government to have an international investigation...
Sri Lanka’s current crisis is not of recent origin. It developed over a couple of decades and took a turn for the worse about one and a half years ago, culminating in the bankruptcy of the economy. The blame...
Politics is notoriously fickle and has much more to do with expediency than principle, for ambition takes precedence over everything else in one’s quest for power. Politicians have therefore earned notoriety for unpredictable and unbelievable policy shifts, about-turns, defections...
