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SLFP MP for Colombo. Endorsed by a faction of the SLFP. [94] Roshan Ranasinghe: Independent: Cricket bat: Former Cabinet Minister. SLPP/SLPFA MP for Polonnaruwa. [95] Janaka Ratnayake: United Lanka People's Party: Cup: Former chairman of the PUCSL. [96] Battaramulle Seelarathana Thero: People's Welfare Front: Tractor: Presidential candidate in ...
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 November 2019. [1] [2] Incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena did not run for a second term.Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was the candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [3] and was endorsed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. [4]
Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero is a Sri Lankan politician [1] and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Thero was born in Akmeemana, Galle. His mother's name is Siriyawathi and his father was Sumatipala. Thero was in parliament from 2004 to 2010.
Colombo Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Colombo in the Western province .
[165] [166] The European Union's heads of mission in Colombo issued a joint statement on 2 January 2015 calling for a "peaceful, credible and transparent" election. [ 167 ] [ 168 ] By 31 December, 2014, the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) had reported 1,007 incidents of election law violations, 105 of which were related to violence ...
The Parliament has 225 members, elected for a five-year term, 196 members elected in multi-seat constituencies through proportional representation system where each party is allocated a number of seats from the quota for each district according to the proportion of the total vote that party obtains in the district.
The father-son duo are the kin of Joseph T. Tomasello — a notorious Colombo crime family capo who was thrown behind bars back in 1998 on a slew of racketeering and murder charges after years on ...
Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero (Sinhala: අතුරලියේ රතන හිමි; born 5 October 1962), is a Sri Lankan Bhikkhu politician and a Member of Parliament. [1] He is the only representative from Our Power of People's Party in the current parliament.