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Reading election polls: To be misled or to be empowered?
Our past experience about elections in Sri Lanka confirms that there was hardly anything that parties and candidates did not...
Continue reading »Elections: For whom and for what?
A critical examination of elections in Sri Lanka It is an election festival once again. The whole country is getting...
Continue reading »Are alliances the key in Sri Lanka’s up-coming Presidential election?
In the past few weeks newspapers were rife with speculations of a possible presidential or parliamentary election that was ‘coming...
Continue reading »Understanding electoral results in Sri Lanka: Beyond winners and losers
Introduction The United People’s Freedom Party (UPFA) claimed its second consecutive provincial electoral victory on the 24th of August by...
Continue reading »Provincial Election Campaign: Battling for the Centre?
Today, the UNP, the SLFP and the JVP have zeroed-in all their resources to the Sabaragamuwa and North Central provinces. ...
Continue reading »The General and his necessary evils
Pradeep Peiris, December 2007 Mahinda Rajapakse has won another decisive battle. At the last Presidential election, the LTTE, for reasons...
Continue reading »Political solution or political illusion?
Pradeep Peiris, Anupama Ranawana, May 2007 The much awaited political proposal of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in now...
Continue reading »Federalism: Some debates never die
Today, in the wake of recent crossovers by the UNP reformists and the presentation of reports from APRC process, the...
Continue reading »Crossover and Mixed Public Reaction
The latest survey conducted by the Social Indicator, the survey research unit of the Centre for Policy Alternatives reveals that...
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