by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 10, 2015 | 2015, Analysis, Jan 2015
For a fresh beginning in Sri Lanka A peaceful transfer of power without post-election violence, after a relatively peaceful campaign, is testimony to the resilience of Sri Lanka’s democracy after experiencing civil war and semi-authoritarianism Other than among the...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 4, 2015 | 2015, Analysis, Jan 2015
State and Governance Reforms after Elections Reforming the state as well as the practices of governance is a major political theme in Sri Lanka’s current Presidential election campaign. The arguments for state reform are framed in the language of constitutional...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 30, 2014 | 2014, Analysis
Manifestos and the Political Pulse President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who just lost the support of the Muslim political parties this week, is facing political isolation of an unprecedented character. Unfortunately for the President, he has neither a political manifesto to...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 28, 2014 | 2014, Analysis
Presidential Election, Desire for Change and the Hope for Democracy’s Survival Less than two weeks more to the Presidential election, scheduled for January 08, 2015, the political temperature of the country is rising amidst incessant rain and unusually cold December...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Dec 18, 2014 | 2014, Analysis
Challenging a Regressive Regime The anti-regime camp led by Maithripala Sirisena is posing the most significant challenge to the present regime. President Rajapaksa has never faced such a challenge. But this is his decisive struggle, he knows it and his opponents know...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Nov 23, 2014 | 2014, Analysis
Critically Supporting the Anti-Regime Campaign It had to happen that way, and the break was only possible with a serious split within the regime. The moment had come for members of the SLFP to take the plunge. And when finally Vasantha Senanayake, MP, crossed over...
