Opinion

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If Gotabaya Rajapaksa wins the presidency, he and his family will have two priorities: secure the premiership for Mahinda Rajapaksa and obtain a two-thirds majority in the next parliament for the SLPP. Reaching the first goal would be a necessary condition for reaching the second. If the SLPP can go for the next election under a SLPP president and a SLPP premier, a...

2019-11-16 18:30:00

Bearing responsibility for evil

As the presidential election heads into its final stretch, handwringing over the lesser of the two evils is reaching its tortured apex. The most terrible strain of this that has emerged at the eleventh hour has been the chorus of voices claiming that only a vote for Sajith Premadasa will protect democracy in the country. Consequently, this argument goes, anyone...

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Maithripala’s last day

As the results trickle in from Sri Lanka’s eighth presidential election and the country’s seventh Executive President is sworn in to office, his predecessor, Maithripala Sirisena will spend his last day as Executive President, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces today.The Sirisena Presidency was a political experiment born out of political expediency...

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