Photo courtesy of Human Rights Watch Universal franchise is the right of all qualified citizens irrespective of their race, religion, language, ethnicity, caste, education, ownership of wealth, birth, the place of birth,…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Mirror The proposed 20th amendment will be the death of free and fair elections in Sri Lanka. The study of political communications and digital propaganda for over…
Photo courtesy of The Economic Times The looming presidential election of the first week of November, 2020 draws some resemblances to that which confronted John F. Kennedy in the build up to…
Photo Courtesy of WSJ Opinion The US presidential election is due in November this year. For people in Sri Lanka, as in much of the globe, that would be among the most…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Mirror It’s a simple question. Why, in the face of utter electoral destruction, doesn’t the UNP choose a new leader through a secret ballot? That question alone,…
Photo courtesy of The Diplomat The general elections on 5 August turned out to be an outstanding victory for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the Rajapaksa Family and the Sinhala Buddhist nationalists…
Photo courtesy of Hindustan Times The results of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election held on Wednesday show a seismic shift in the country’s electoral map as well as the balance of political power…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Mirror The general election to parliament is concluded and the official results are out. The anticipated landslide victory to the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has…
Photo courtesy of The Daily Mirror In a country that produced the world’s first female head of state 60 years ago and has since seen the election of a female as its executive…
Image Courtesy of The Daily Mirror The true value and effectiveness of the 19th Amendment for improving governance in Sri Lanka has been a matter of debate for some time now. Political…
Image Courtesy of News First This week, Sri Lanka will have a new, or perhaps not-so-new, Parliament. Given the unusual circumstances in which the elections will be held this time, it is…
Photo courtesy of indi.ca These could be the last days of the Nineteenth Amendment. If not of its entirety, at least of a part of it, even a substantial part of it….
Photo courtesy of asiatimes.com The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) handsomely won November’s presidential election with 52% of the popular vote and is accordingly the clear favourite and front runner to…
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 Verite Research Finally, the date of the Parliamentary elections has been announced. There is hardly any doubt about which party would win the election. The only doubt is which ideology…
