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by Jayadeva Uyangoda
With the presidential election campaign now well underway, it appears that the contest is between the two main candidates, Sajith Premadasa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. In the absence of scientific polling in Sri Lanka, no credible voter sentiment analysis is available. Therefore we are all compelled to rely on speculation.
Outside the two main candidates, Anura Kumara...
With the nomination of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its presidential candidate, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has officially launched its presidential election campaign.
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa who has remained a nominal member of the SLFP and the UPFA so far, has also been declared publicly as the leader of the SLPP. This is likely to cause a mass migration...
NOTE: The Sunday Observer has inadvertently published an erroneous version of this article in the print version of the newspaper. The following is the article as it was intended for publication both in print and online. We regret the error.
Islamophobia is a term that gained currency in the 1980s in British English. It referred to prejudices against the Islam and Muslim...
In democracies, elections usually are significant political turning points. In democratic theory, an election marks two key opportunities to the people as well as the rulers. For the people, it marks the periodic occasion to elect their rulers and grant them authority to rule over them for a specific period of time, usually, five years.
For the rulers, incumbent or...
Speculations about the next presidential election became renewed and heated again last week. Among media reports about the forthcoming election, the most crucial was the news that a decision had been made by the Rajapaksa family that Gotabaya Rajapaksa would be the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate.
This media report is important due to two other...