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In 1972, the country was renamed as the Free, Sovereign and Independent Republic of Sri Lanka, and the position was known as the prime minister of Sri Lanka from then onwards. The prime minister also held the unified Ministry of External Affairs and Defence until 1977, when the government of J. R. Jayewardene split the ministry into two ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "Prime ministers of Sri Lanka" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The prime minister of Sri Lanka, officially the prime minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the most senior member of parliament in the cabinet of ministers. It is the second-most powerful position in Sri Lanka's executive branch behind the president [ failed verification ] , who is the constitutional chief executive .
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Prime Minister: 21 July 1960: 25 March 1965 [1] Minister of Defence and External Affairs: 23 July 1960 [2] Felix Dias Bandaranaike: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Minister of Finance: 23 July 1960: 27 August 1962 [2] [3] [4] Minister of Agriculture, Food and Co-operative Development: 28 May 1963 [3] C. P. de Silva: Sri Lanka ...
In 2010, on the 50th anniversary of Bandaranaike's election as the world's first female prime minister, Sri Lankan parliamentarian Rosy Senanayake told the press that Sri Lanka had not made significant progress towards gender equality in politics: only 4.5 per cent of parliamentarians were women.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 11 October 2012, at 14:57 (UTC). ...
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William Gopallawa MBE (Sinhala: විලියම් ගොපල්ලව, Tamil: வில்லியம் கோப்பல்லாவ; 17 September 1896 – 31 January 1981) was a Sri Lankan politician and statesman who served as the last Governor-General of Ceylon from 1962 to 1972 and the first and only non-executive President of Sri Lanka from 1972 to 1978, when Ceylon declared ...