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The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB; Sinhala: සමගි ජන බලවේගය, romanized: Samagi Jana Balavēgaya, Tamil: ஐக்கிய மக்கள் சக்தி, romanized: Aikkiya Makkaḷ Cakti, English: United People's Power) is a political alliance [4] [5] led by Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa.
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, won a large majority in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election on 5 August 2020. [14] During their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis, which culminated into widespread protests ...
The 16th parliamentary election was held on 5 August 2020. [3] The incumbent Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance claimed a landslide victory in the election claiming the majority winning 145 seats, [4] [5] [6] while the newly formed Samagi Jana Balawegaya won a total of 54 seats and the National People's Power won 3 seats.
The election signified a major political realignment in Sri Lanka. [10] Dissanayake's victory was the first time a third-party candidate was elected president. This was also the first election where neither of the top two candidates were endorsed by the United National Party or the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
The election was postponed at least twice due to a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, before the date was finalized as 5 August 2020. [13] [14] Prior to the election, a coronavirus-proof mock election was conducted by the Election Commission in June 2020 as a trial run in order to comply with health guidelines. [15] [16]
In the subsequent parliamentary elections, the JVP became the largest party in the parliament for the first time with 159 seats, winning a supermajority. The JVP majority was the second-largest majority in the country’s parliamentary history, and the first election since 1977 where a single
The National People's Power is ideologically left-wing populist [28] and working-class centred. The NPP is led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the main communist party of Sri Lanka. [ 29 ] The NPP promotes a unique Sri Lankan economic model based on socialist principles and considers both neoliberalism and 'classical socialism' to be failures ...
Manifesto of N'sele; Manifesto of Sandhurst; Manifesto of the 121; Manifesto of the 343; Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals; The Manifesto of the Equals; Manifesto of the Ninety-Three; Manifesto of the Oppressed Black Mauritanian; Manifesto of the People of Brabant; Manifesto of the Province of Flanders; Manifesto on Freedom and ...