The anti-incumbency factor is a fact of life any government has to contend with. It chips away at the popularity of governments in power, but their leaders tend to wish it away, albeit in vain. In...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday, presented the 2014 Budget themed, ‘A Prelude to a Bright Future’. It is now under the microscope, and there has been a mixed reaction to it. The President has vehemently denied that it is...
Sri Lankan cricketers’ abysmal performance during the past several tournaments and very serious allegations of corruption against Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have brought about tensions among the three branches of government to all intents and purposes strange as it...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent outburst at the western bloc has raised many an eyebrow. It is considered uncharacteristic of the leader of a party known to espouse western liberalism. Wickremesinghe’s uncle, the late President J. R. Jayewardene, whom he...
Sri Lanka is never short of political dramas of varying intensities, ranging from comical to serious, the latest being the verbal conflict between the SLPP and the UNP. Some disgruntled SLPP seniors pretend that they will not vote for...
Emil Kanthan (EK), who was once described as an LTTE financier and had an Interpol Red Notice on him, is in the news again. He and another person have been removed from Sri Lanka’s list of proscribed persons and...
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...
