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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Photo courtesy of the diplomat.com The general elections on 5 August turned out to be an outstanding victory for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the…
Photo courtesy of Hindustantimes.com The results of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election held on Wednesday show a seismic shift in the country’s electoral map as well…
Photo courtesy of srilankamirror.com The general election to parliament is concluded and the official results are out. The anticipated landslide victory to the ruling Sri…
Photo courtesy of daily mirror.lk In a country that produced the world’s first female head of state 60 years ago and has since seen the election…
Image Courtesy of dailymirror.lk The true value and effectiveness of the 19th Amendment for improving governance in Sri Lanka has been a matter of debate…
Image Courtesy of newsfirst.lk This week, Sri Lanka will have a new, or perhaps not-so-new, Parliament. Given the unusual circumstances in which the elections will…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Photo by AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, via Yahoo! Living in challenging times can be a blessing if changes during that time move one’s country towards a…
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images from The Interpreter It is a modern morality tale about the dangers of misusing the military, of militarising…
Image via Financial Times The postponement of the General Elections 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic has led to different viewpoints being expressed on…
Photo by AP via ABC News The threefold crisis that our country faces— public health, the constitutional, and political—is exacerbating day by day. In the latest…
Photo credit AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena via The Diplomat The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the lives of people in Sri Lanka and across the globe. The…
Image courtesy NewsInAsia Even for a country that coped with and ended a near thirty year long civil war, the Covid-19 pandemic has posed an…
Photo by AP via ABC News I refer to the Daily Mirror article, of today’s date, on the date for summoning the new Parliament after…
Image from Flickr “Try again; fail again. Fail better. “- Samuel Beckett Last year at Easter, sudden acts of violence spread immense fear, injury and…
Image courtesy NewsIn.Asia Editor’s Note: A version of this article appears in DailyFT. “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering…
Before and after the election Concerns for physical security secured a foremost place in people’s expectations and influenced the way many voted. An ‘enemy’, among…
Photo courtesy Foreign Policy In the aftermath of the 2019 Presidential Elections which concluded another era of the Sri Lankan political journey, it is necessary to…
Photo courtesy The Statesman Editors note: The following was sent to Groundviews by a regular contributor, who wished to remain anonymous. It was written by…