Photo Courtesy of Daily News With the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, Sri Lanka embarks yet again down the fraught path of authoritarian presidentialism. Whether this latest adventure ends in a democratic…
Photo courtesy of Blue Lanka Tours As the Twentieth Amendment Bill is brought before Parliament – and challenged in the Supreme Court – there are two critical sets of questions we need…
Photo Courtesy of Al Jazeera By Asanga Welikala and Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne The election of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in November 2019 marked the beginning of a new era of a Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist…
Photo courtesy of www.channel4.com The governing party’s general election campaign is centred on obtaining a two-thirds majority in the next Parliament. It is expected that the governing party will fulfil its wish…
Photo courtesy News in Asia The COVID-19 crisis took hold in Sri Lanka at a time when Parliament stood dissolved ahead of a general election. The gravity of the public health emergency,…
Featured image courtesy Dhaka Tribune President Sirisena is evidently unhappy that a Select Committee of Parliament has been appointed to investigate the circumstances that led to the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks. UPFA…
Photo by Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images via ABCNewsGo The Prime Minister has gone on record with the international media saying that, even though Sri Lankan authorities were aware of Sri Lankan…
Featured image: St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, Negombo, remains closed off under heavy military watch as clearance operations continue. The blue tarpaulin has been placed over the section of the roof damaged…
In a week of high-stakes litigation in the two highest courts in the land, a key question in the public discussion over the continuing constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka has focused on…
Featured image by Amalini De Sayrah Since 26 October, virtually every gambit and calculation of the instigators of the Sri Lankan constitutional coup have failed. Initially, they relied on the element of…
Further exacerbating the constitutional crisis that he precipitated a fortnight ago, President Sirisena issued a proclamation purporting to dissolve Parliament on 9thNovember 2018. Having prorogued Parliament and then lost the gamble to…
Featured image courtesy Maatram There have been intense public debates over the meaning and interpretation of the Constitution, and especially the far-reaching changes introduced by the Nineteenth Amendment in 2015, since the…
Featured image courtesy Alexander Nikiforov There were three dramatic announcements on the evening of Friday 26th October 2018 from the Presidential Secretariat, which occurred in the following order: (a) the announcement of the…
Featured image by NDTV There has recently been a flurry of comment and speculation about whether, due to a technical flaw in the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution (2015), former President Rajapaksa…
Featured image courtesy VCG Photo It was fairly clear even before yesterday’s debate that the Prime Minister would not easily be defeated on the no-confidence motion, given the configuration of party representation…
