It means that only two-thirds of the total voters were counted. It is a factor to reckon with and gave the eventual victor an advantage as people back a winner, not an opposition that provided a ...
The National Peoples’ Power (NPP) came up with a tentative list consisting of senior party stalwarts, trade unionists, and professionals to fill the 18 national list slots while the Samagi Jana ...
For the first time in Sri Lanka’s political history, a single party went beyond a two-thirds vote at Thursday’s parliamentary elections. “We did not expect this much,” an overjoyed National People’s ...
Internal resistance from a few ‘corrupt’ MTD officials, some of whom benefit from the outdated system, has also contributed to the project’s failure. Allegations of corruption and fraudulent practices ...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will name a 23-member Cabinet tomorrow while holding the portfolios of defence and finance as the beginning of a string of changes to be effected after his party’s ...
The Government of Sri Lanka is to reduce the heavy cost of maintaining Parliament by curtailing the benefits given to newly elected Members of Parliament.