Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the United National Party (UNP) would form its own government in 2020.
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18th Apr 2024 | Updated at 02:21am 18th Apr 2024
Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has opened the second session of the eighth parliament on Tuesday.
Eighteen Cabinet Ministers were sworn in by President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat on Tuesday morning
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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last week survived a no confidence vote in parliament after a majority of legislators voted to support his...
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s party on Tuesday formally informed embattled Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that it will support a no-confidence...
A controversial Sri Lankan opposition legislator said US authorities prevented him from taking a flight to Texas from Moscow where he was an observer for...
- 21 Mar 2018
A senior diplomat said that Maldives President Abdulla Yameen will lift a 45-day state of emergency on Thursday and the government will bring bribery charges...
