The JVP-NPP was generally perceived as a “Sinhala” party ... Moreover it caused an upset by polling the highest number of ...

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a formerly marginal communist party, has secured a stunning two-thirds majority in Sri ...

In the 2019 presidential election, Dissanayake won just 3.1 percent of the vote, and in the last parliamentary election, held in August 2020 amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the JVP ...

Presidential Secretariat Sri Lanka] The JVP/NPP exploited a tidal wave of popular anger against the traditional political establishment, whose ruinous capitalist policies have plunged the country ...

Dissanayake is popularly known] wave and Sri Lanka’s electoral history ... Read this analysis by Meera Srinivasan. The JVP took the back-to-back victories as an opportunity.

As stated in last week’s article, candidates from Sinhala dominated national parties like the United National Party (UNP), Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Communist Party (CP)have been elected ...