SRI LANKA ASIA INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

INDEX:--
1.POLITICAL SCIENCE
2.GOVERNMENT TYPES
3.GOOD GOVERNANCE
4.FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
5.HUMAN RIGHTS
6.OPPOSITION
7.SRILANKA POLITICS

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the
description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the
pragmatic application of the art and science of politics defined as "who gets what, when and how", leaving out of the picture most of the "why". Political science has several subfields, including: political theory, public policy, national politics, international relations, and comparative politics.
Political science is methodologically diverse, to the discipline include classical political philosophy, positivism, interpretivism, structuralism, and behavioralism, realism, pluralism, and institutionalism. Political science, as one of the social sciences, uses methods and techniques that
relate to the kinds of inquiries sought: primary sources such as historical documents and official
records, secondary sources such as scholarly journal articles, survey research, statistical
analysis, case studies and model building.
"As a discipline" political science, possibly like the social sciences as a whole, "lives on the
fault line between the 'two cultures' in the academy, the sciences and the humanities."
Thus, in some American colleges where there is no separate School or College of Arts and Sciences per se,political science may be a separate department housed as part of a division or school of Humanities or Liberal Arts.

2.GOVERNMENT TYPES
List of government types
Anarchy
Aristocracy
Communist state
Confederation
Corporatism
Corporatocracy
Consociationalism
Demarchy
Democracy
Direct
Representative
Consensus
Despotism
Dictatorship
Royal-Kingdom

Form_of_governmentAutocracy
Military/Military junta
Authoritarianism
Totalitarianism
Ethnic democracy
Ethnocracy
Fascism
Federation
Feudalism
Constitutional/Limited
Diarchy/Co-Kingship
Parliamentary
Plutocracy
Presidential
Puppet state
Republic
Crowned
Capitalist
Constitutional
Federal
Parliamentary
Dependent head of state
Federal
Socialist state
Sociocracy
Technocracy
Islamic state
Tribal
Chiefdom
Tyranny


3.GOOD GOVERNANCE

Good governance is an indeterminate term used in development literature to describe how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources in order to guarantee the realization of human rights. Governance describes "the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented)". The term governance can apply to corporate, international, national, local governance or to the interactions between other sectors of society.

The concept of "good governance" often emerges as a model to compare ineffective economies or political bodies with viable economies and political bodies. Because the most "successful" governments in the contemporary world are liberal democratic states concentrated in Europe and the Americas, those countries' institutions often set the standards by which to compare other states' institutions. Because the term good governance can be focused on any one form of governance, aid organizations and the authorities of developed countries often will focus the meaning of good governance to a set of requirement that conform to the organizations agenda, making "good governance" imply many different things in many different contexts.

In international affairs, analysis of good governance can look at any of the following relationships:---
between governments and markets,
between governments and citizens,
between governments and the private or voluntary sector,
between elected officials and appointed officials,
between local institutions and urban and rural dwellers,
between legislature and executive branches, and
between nation states and institutions.
The varying types of comparisons comprising the analysis of governance in scholastic and practical discussion can cause the meaning of "good governance" to vary greatly from practitioner to practitioner.

Reform and standards
Three institutions can be reformed to promote good governance: the state, the private sector and civil society.[6] However, amongst various cultures, the need and demand for reform can vary depending on the priorities of that country's society.A variety of country level initiatives and international movements put emphasis on various types of governance reform. Each movement for reform establishes criteria for what they consider good governance based on their own needs and agendas. The following are examples of good governance standards for prominent organizations in the international community.

4.FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
The Fundamental Rights are defined as basic human freedoms which every citizen has the right to enjoy for a proper and harmonious development of personality. These rights universally apply to all citizens, irrespective of race, place of birth, religion, caste, creed, colour or sex. They are enforceable by the courts, subject to certain restrictions.Fundamental Rights is a charter of rights. It guarantees civil liberties such that all people can lead their lives in peace and harmony. These include individual rights common to most liberal democracies, such as equality before law, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly, freedom to practice religion, and the right to constitutional remedies for the protection of civil rights by means of writs such as habeas corpus. Violations of these rights result in punishments , subject to discretion of the judiciary. The Fundamental Rights are defined as basic human freedoms which every citizen has the right to enjoy for a proper and harmonious development of personality. These rights universally apply to all citizens, irrespective of race, place of birth, religion, caste, creed, colour or sex. They are enforceable by the courts, subject to certain restrictions. The Rights have their origins in many sources, including England's Bill of Rights, the United States Bill of Rights and France's Declaration of the Rights of Man.

The six fundamental rights recognised by the constitutions.

The right to equality
The right to freedom
The right to freedom from exploitation
The right to freedom of religion
Cultural and educational rights
The right to constitutional remedies


5.HUMAN RIGHTS
Human rights is a universalist concept of legal rights and ethics, which developed out of the Liberal Enlightenment in Europe and the United States, though it has since spread around the world. Egalitarian and relativist in outlook, proponents of the concept usually assert that all human beings—regardless of cultural, organisational, religious or ethnic associations—should be entitled to certain social, political and legal rights of toleration. The precise nature of what should or should not be regarded as a human right is heatedly debated, thus the concept is somewhat ambigious and open to interpretation.

The intellectual foundations of the concept can be traced back to rationalism of the Liberal Enlightenment, with figures such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rosseau and Immanuel Kant. In the political realm the concept was brought to the fore in the 18th century by the American Revolution and French Revolution, culminating in the United States Bill of Rights and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively. However, the concept only began to gain a substantial hegemony in influence over international law and geopolitics after the Second World War, with the introduction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
“ All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
International Human Rights Agencies

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The UNHCHR also provides a useful Human Rights Treaty Bodies Database, which offers information on a range of international bodies that monitor human rights treaties.

A very useful UN site presents links to a wide range of its many sites related to human rights issues, including:

Children
Indigenous peoples
Racism and racial discrimination
Slavery
Women


International Human Rights Documents
United Nations - see the complete list of human rights documents or consult to the following important documents and the list ratifications by country (pdf):

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 1948

International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights - 1966

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 1966

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 1966

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty - 1989
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples - 1960

United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 1963

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 1965

International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid - 1973

Convention against Discrimination in Education - 1960

Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief - 1981

Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief - 1992

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War - 1949

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War - 1949

Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries - 1989

UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - 1993
6.OPPOSITION IN A PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

INTRODUCTION

A situation in which the activity of politics is devalued is inimical to parliamentary democracy. Parliament, after all, is fundamentally about debate – "rhetoric" in the classical Greek sense – and the transacting of the people’s business in public. It is also about the right to dissent in a civilized manner. Genuine political opposition is a necessary attribute of democracy, tolerance, and trust in the ability of citizens to resolve differences by peaceful means. The existence of an opposition, without which politics ceases and administration takes over, is indispensable to the functioning of parliamentary political systems. If these systems are perceived as not working well – as being "seriously overloaded," to quote a distinguished Canadian Opposition Leader, the Hon. Robert Stanfield – it may be the rights of political oppositions which are immediately and most visibly at stake, but ultimately the threat is to democratic rights and freedoms generally. The following paper is an attempt to come to grips with the challenging nature of the opposition’s role in Parliament, specifically in the Canadian context.

GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION IN PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACIES

The division between government and opposition is as old as political democracy itself. In Aristotle’s Athenian polity the essence of self-government was that citizens were, in turn, both the rulers and the ruled. Government could alternate among different groups of citizens, and the minority could seek to persuade a majority of its point of view by peaceful (i.e., political) means. In an age of mass politics, direct citizen democracy has been replaced, with rare exceptions, by representative systems providing for periodic elections. In turn, these electoral contests are usually dominated by a small number of political parties which select their own candidates and leaders. What has not changed, however, in our modern liberal-democratic society is the hallowed principle that government must rest on the consent of the governed – which means, inter alia, that the minority accepts the right of the majority to make decisions, provided that there is reciprocal respect for the minority’s right to dissent from these decisions and to promote alternative policies. With the advent of representative and responsible parliamentary government, the distinction between "government" and "opposition" has become more formalized and routinized, but the underlying principles have not changed.
Of course it is not only in British-style Parliaments that this sort of ongoing legitimate contestation for decision-making power takes place. Every pluralistic democratic legislature contains both supporters and opponents of the executive. And, in all parts of the world, these legislatures are confronted with the problem of "executive dominance" in the face of modern demands for more and more government services.(1) The complaint is often heard that because of these pressures legislative politics is inefficient, ineffective, and in danger of becoming obsolete. Accordingly, we shall look at some of the countervailing power available to oppositions in legislatures which, through their heritage in the British Commonwealth, look to the "Westminster model" of parliamentary democracy for inspiration.
Although one speaks of a "model," British parliamentary practice has evolved over centuries and still rests entirely on convention. The emergence of a set pattern of government and opposition is of comparatively recent origin. There was a time when the subjects thought fit for parliamentary debate were severely limited, when opposition to the government’s handling of affairs of state could be considered to smack of treason, and hence to be dangerous. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Member of Parliament who went beyond presenting private, local and special grievances or bills, to oppose the Crown, or even to debate such national issues as the right of succession, foreign policy and religion, risked imprisonment or worse. Of this period the historian Macaulay commented:
... every man who then meddled with public affairs took his life in his hand... It was, we seriously believe, as safe to be a highwayman as to be a distinguished leader of the opposition.

It was not until the 18th century that it came to be constitutionally accepted that an opposition could be "loyal" across the whole spectrum of public policy. Nevertheless, one cannot refer to the existence of an opposition in the modern sense; throughout most of the 18th century not only was there no disciplined, organized, and ongoing political formation dedicated to opposing the government, but also the very idea of "faction" or "party" was disreputable. Since the gradual formation of cohesive Whig and Tory party groups in the latter part of the 18th century, the term "the Opposition" has been applied chiefly to the party or parties whose elected members do not support the ministry of the day and who offer themselves to the voting public, not just as individual candidates, but as an organized and disciplined alternative government. The actual term "His Majesty’s Opposition" was coined during a British debate in 1826 and has been in use ever since.

With the development of cabinet government and the rise of political parties, responsible government has come to rely on electoral strategies in addition to strictly parliamentary ones. The governing party is "responsible" to the Commons chiefly in that it can be turned out of office and replaced by another party at the next election. The government must continue to enjoy the confidence of the House between elections, but, even in minority government situations, the real test of confidence is not in the daily balance of forces between government and opposition in the chamber but in the anticipated or threatened electoral contest among the major parties. As the distinguished Canadian parliamentarian Stanley Knowles put it:

The opposition should so conduct itself in Parliament as to persuade the people of the country that it could be an improvement on the government of the day. No one will deny that our system works best when there is a change of government at reasonable intervals.

The role of an opposition party, Mr. Knowles noted, is to check and prod, but ultimately to replace the government party. Bernard Crick has also described the British House of Commons as the place where a "continuous election campaign ... is fought." In Canada in this century, however, Mr. Knowles’ criterion of "reasonable intervals" has often been more the exception than the rule. This has led a number of observers to point out the potential dangers to parliamentary processes of long periods where one party controls the executive. Because electoral standing is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of government legitimacy, one must guard against devaluing the ongoing test of legitimacy which takes place through the intermediary of the legislature and the legislative opposition.

It is crucial to maintain the distinction between parliamentary, representative democracy and the sort of direct, plebiscitary appeal to "the people" which history shows can be made compatible with the most technocratic and authoritarian forms of government. A vigorous opposition in Parliament can be the chief bulwark against the temptation to force majeure and bureaucratic empire. "The people" speak through the "loyal opposition" as well as the government, through back-benchers as well as Cabinet ministers. There is simply no substitute for the "checks and balances" which are brought into play in the representative and watchdog functions performed by ordinary Members of Parliament. Just as members of the upper house are expected to use it as a chamber of "sober second thought" as well as a guarantor of minority rights and sectional interests, so, too, members of the opposition in the lower house are called upon to act as a brake on government haste, to ensure that all legislation receives the "due process" of parliamentary deliberation, and to see that diverse and opposing points of view have a chance to be aired and defended.


7.SRILANKA POLITICS
SINCE 1948
A.HISTORY


DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT

INDEPENDENCE IN 1948 FROM BRITISH RULE SINCE 1815

1948--UNITED NATIONAL PARTY WON ELECTIONS
HON.D.S.SENANAYAKE FIRST PRIME MINISTER
GOOD GOVERNANCE-----DEMOCRCY,HUMAN RIGHTS ,MEDIA FREEDOM ,UNITY AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS,EQUALITY,OPPOSITION RIGHTS
MAIN OPPOSITION----LEFTISTS-COMMUNIST PARTY AND SAMASAMAJA PARTY


1951
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) was created by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike

1952
The Second Election. United National Party (UNP) wins
Dudley Senanayake -Prime Minister
1953
The Third Election. UNP win again.
Sir John Kotelawala elected as Prime Minister.

1956--SRILANKA FREEDOM PARTY WON 1956 ELECTIONS.

PRIMINISTER --MR.S.W.R.D.BANDARANAYAKE
POLITICAL TURMOILS-ETHNIC CLASHES AMONG SINHALESE AND TAMILS
THIS LED TO ETHNIC TERRORISM -TO WAR AND DOWNFALL OF SRILANKA.

ALSO NATIONALISATION OF PROPERTY AND SCHOOLS
CONDITIONS DETERIORATED.
CERTAIN GOOD STEPS WERE TAKEN TO IMPROVE LABOUR STANDARDS AND WAGES AND GRANTING EPF TO PRIVATE SECTOR
1959
Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is assassinated on the 25th of September 1959

1960

Fifth Election. The Fourth Parliament of Sri Lanka lasts for only thirty days as the newly elected Prime Minister, Dudley Senanayake is defeated by a motion of no-confidence.

1960
Sixth Election. Sirimavo Bandaranaike of the SLFP becomes the Prime Minister and the world's first woman prime minister. SLFP formes a coalition government with small parties.

1965
UNP wins in the Election and Dudley Senanayake becomes the Prime Minister.

1970
SLFP-led coalition wins at the election and Sirimavo Bandaranaike is the Prime Minister.

1972
The new Republican Constitution is introduced. Lanka is re-named ‘Sri Lanka’

1977
UNP wins the election and J.R. Jayawardene is the Prime Minister.

1978
A new constitution introduced creating the powerful Executive Presidency.
R Premadasa becomes the Prime Minister of President J R Jayawardene’s Cabinet

1982
Repeated victory for J R Jayawardene at the Presidential election

1982
The UNP majority Parliament is extended until 1989 at the referendum

1989
Presidential election. R Premadasa of the UNP is the new President
1989
Parliament election: UNP wins the majority seats. D.B.Wijetunge becomes the new Prime Minister

1993
President R Premadasa falls victim to a suicide bomber marking another death in a line of political assassinations. D B Wijetunge assumes office as the new President and Ranil Wickramasinghe is his Prime Minister.

1994
Presidential election: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga of the SLFP led coalition People's
Alliance (PA) gains victory
1994
Parliament election: Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the Prime Minister as PA gets the majority seats.

1998
Ratnasiri Wickramanayake becomes the Prime Minister

2000
Presidential election: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga of the SLFP led coalition People's
Alliance (PA) win the election

2001
Parliament election: UNP-led coalition United National Front (UNF) win majority seats.
Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe Prime Minister.

2004
Parliamentary Election UPFA wins. Mr. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake is Prime Minister.

2005
Presidential Election UPFA Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksa wins.

2009
L.T.T.E. is defeated in a war .Terrorism in Sri Lanka ends.

2010
Presidential Election Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa wins.

2010
Parliamentary Election is to be held on April 8th 2010.



B.POLITICAL PARTIES IN SRILANKA

ALLIANCES
Tamil National Alliance
(contests under the name and House symbol of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchi) All Ceylon Tamil Congress
Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (Suresh wing)
Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
Tamil United Liberation Front 2001 Rajavarothiam Sampanthan MP 22
United National Front
(contests under the name and Elephant symbol of the United National Party)
Democratic People's Front
Democratic United National Front
National Development Front
National Professional Board
New Sinhala Heritage
Our National Front
People's Liberation Solidarity Front
Ruhunu People's Party
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Mahajana wing)
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
United National Alliance
United National Party 2001
2009 (relaunch) Ranil Wickremasinghe MP

United People's Freedom Alliance
(Sinhala: Eksath Janatha Nidahas Sandhanaya) Betel Leaf
All Ceylon Muslim Congress
Ceylon Workers' Congress
Communist Party of Sri Lanka
Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya (National Liberation People's Party)
Eelam People's Democratic Party
Jathika Hela Urumaya (National Heritage Party)
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (National Freedom Front)
Lanka Sama Samaja Party
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (People's United Front)
National Congress
National Unity Alliance
Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Sri Lanka People's Party
United National Party (Democratic wing)
Up-Country People's Front t Front
(formerly New Left Front) Table Democratic Left Front
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Alternative Group)
National Democratic Movement
Nava Sama Samaja Party
New Democratic Party 1998 Vikramabahu Karunaratne
Democratic Tamil National Alliance
(aka Tamil Democratic National Alliance) Brass Lamp Democratic People's Liberation Front (PLOTE)
Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (Padmanaba wing)
Tamil United Liberation Front (Anandasangaree wing)

Defunct alliances


People's Alliance
(Sinhala: Janatha Sandhanaya) Chair
All members joined UPFA in 2004 1994
Parties

Parliamentary parties


All Ceylon Muslim Congress Peacock UPFA 2008 Risad Badhiutheen MP 4
All Ceylon Tamil Congress Bicycle
TNA 1944 Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam MP Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism
Ceylon Workers' Congress
(formerly Ceylon Indian Congress) Cockerel
UPFA 1939 Arumugam Thondaman MP Communism, Marxism-Leninism
Communist Party (Moscow wing) Star
UPFA 1943 2 Communism, Marxism-Leninism
Democratic People's Front
(formerly Western People's Front) Ladder UNF Mano Ganesan MP 1
Eelam People's Democratic Party Veena
UPFA 1986 Douglas Devananda MP 1
Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
(Suresh wing) Flower TNA 1980 Suresh Premachandran MP Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
(English: People's Liberation Front) Bell 1965 Somawansa Amarasinghe Communism, Marxism-Leninism, nationalism
Jathika Hela Urumaya
(English: National Heritage Party) Conch Shell UPFA 2004 9
Jathika Nidahas Peramuna
(English: National Freedom Front) n/a UPFA 2008 Wimal Weerawansa MP
Lanka Sama Samaja Party
(English: Lanka Equal Society Party) Key UPFA 1935 1 Communism, Trotskyism
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
(English: People's United Front) Cartwheel UPFA 1951?
1959? Dinesh Gunawardena MP 2
National Unity Alliance
(aka Muslim National Unity Alliance) Pigeon UPFA Ferial Ismail Ashraff MP 2 Islamic socialism
National Congress
(aka National Muslim Congress) Horse UPFA A. L. M. Athaullah MP 1
Sri Lanka Freedom Party
(Sinhala: Sri Lanka Nidahas Pakshaya) Hand UPFA 1951 President Mahinda Rajapaksa Democratic socialism, Centre-Left/Populist, Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Mahajana wing) n/a UNF 2007 Mangala Samaraweera MP 2
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Tree
UNF 1981 Rauff Hakeem MP
Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization Light House TNA 1974?
1979? Selvam Adaikalanathan MP Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism
Tamil United Liberation Front
(formerly Tamil United Front) Sun
TNA 1972 Disputed Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism
United National Party
(Sinhala: Eksath Jathika Pakshaya) Elephant
UNF 1946 Ranil Wickremasinghe MP Centre-Right, Conservatism, Liberal conservatism
United National Party (Democratic wing) n/a UPFA 2007
Up-Country People's Front Mammoty UPFA P. Chandrasekaran MP 1

Other registered parties

Akila Ilankai Tamil United Front Orange 2005 K. Vigneswaran
All Are Citizens All Are Kings Organization
(Sinhala: Okkoma Wasiyo Okkoma Rajawaru Sanvidanaya) Till
Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance Fish 2002 T.V. Chennan
Citizen's Front
(Sinhala: Puravesi Peramuna) Omnimbus
Democratic Left Front
(Sinhala: Prajathanthravadi Vamanshika Peramuna) Clock LF 1999 Vasudeva Nanayakkara
Democratic People's Liberation Front
(political wing of People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam) Anchor DTNA 1988 D. Siddarthan
Democratic United National Front
(Sinhala: Prajathanthravadi Eksath Jathika Peramuna) Eagle UNF 1990 Ariyawansa Dissanayake
Democratic Unity Alliance Two Leaves
Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya
(English: National Liberation People's Party) Ear of Paddy UPFA 1988
Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front Bull 1987
Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
(Padmanaba wing), previously Varatharaja wing Candle DTNA 2000 T. Sridharan
Varatharaja Perumal
Eelavar Democratic Front
(political wing of Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students) Plough UPFA
Green Party Goblet
Janasetha Peramuna Tractor
Liberal Party Book
Muslim Liberation Front Butterfly
Muslim National Alliance Pair of Scales
National Alliance
(Sinhala: Jathika Sandanaya) Double Flags
National Development Front
(Sinhala: Jathika Sangwardhena Peramuna) Coconut UNF Achala Asoka Suraweera
National Peoples Party Electric Bulb
Nava Sama Samaja Party
(English: New Equal Society Party) Umbrella LF 1977 Vikramabahu Karunaratne
New Democratic Front Swan Shamila Perera
New Sinhala Heritage
(Sinhala: Nava Sihala Urumaya) Bow & Arrow UNF Sarath Manamendra
Our National Front
(Sinhala: Ape Jathika Peramuna) Telephone UNF
Patriotic National Front
(Sinhala: Desha Premi Jathika Peramuna) Flag
People's Front of Liberation Tigers Tiger 1989
People's Liberation Solidarity Front
(Sinhala: Janatha Vimukthi Sahayogitha Peramuna) Lantern UNF 1997 Ruwan Ferdinandus
Ruhuna People's Party
(Sinhala: Ruhunu Janatha Party) Motor Car UNF Aruna de Zoysa
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya
(English: The Great Consensus Party of the Sons of the Soil of Sinhala) Aeroplane Harischandra Wijayatunga
Socialist Alliance Clay Lamp
Socialist Equality Party
(Sinhala: Samajavadi Samanathmatha Pakshaya)
(formerly Revolutionary Communist League) Pair of Scissors 1968
Sri Lanka National Front
(Sinhala: Sri Lanka Jathika Peramuna) Cricket Bat
Sri Lanka People's Party
(Sinhala: Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya) Eye UPFA 1984
Sri Lanka Progressive Front
(Sinhala: Sri Lanka Pragathishili Peramuna) Flower Vase 1996
Sri Lanka Vanguard Party Envelop
Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal
(English: Tamil People's Liberation Tigers) Boat UPFA 1984 Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan
United Democratic Front Rabbit
United Lanka Great Council
(Sinhala: Eksath Lanka Maha Sabha) Fountain Pen
United Lanka People's Party
(Sinhala: Eksath Lanka Podujana Pakshaya) Cup
United National Alternative Front Gate
United Socialist Party Tri-shaw 1989




Politically motivated websites attempt to degrade world-class Norochcholai project
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Ministry of Power & Energy in a press release this evening refutes
baseless and damaging statements published by some Pro-opposition web
site called Lanka Guardian on the February 23 with regard to the
Norochcholai Power Plant.
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Acceptance of Nominations ends
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Accepting Nominations came to an end at noon today. Objections were submitted until 1.30 this afternoon. Elections Commissioner

Dayananda Dishanayaka had earlier directed District Returning Officers to implement special security measures at all District

Secretariats where Nominations were being accepted. Only those who possessed permits were allowed to enter the District

Secretariats.

Ranil fears cross-overs after election
Saturday, 27 February 2010
The opposition leader obtaining undated letters from the UNP general election Candidates to the effect that they would not abandon

the party amounts to depriving them of the right to act according to their conscience Minister Rajitha Senarathne said.
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