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Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Minister of Irrigation, Power and Highways: 31 May 1970 [2] [3] T. B. Subasinghe: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Minister of Industries and Scientific Affairs: 1 March 1977 [3] [4] S. K. K. Suriarachchi: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Minister of Food, Co-operatives and Small Industries [3] T. B. Tennekoon: Minister of Cultural ...
The president of Sri Lanka is the elected head of state and the chief executive of Sri Lanka. The president is a dominant political figure in the country. The office was created in 1972, as more of a ceremonial position. It was empowered with executive powers by the 1978 Constitution introduced by J. R. Jayewardene.
The head of state of Sri Lanka is the president. The office has existed since 1972 with the establishment of a Republican government under the 1972 Constitution . However for most of its history, from 543 BC the head of state has been a monarch.
Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. "1977 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. "Table 38 Parliament Election (1977)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011; Rajasingham, K. T. (26 January 2002).
In 1978 Jayewardene introduced a new constitution making Sri Lanka a presidential 'Democratic Socialist' republic, with himself as executive President The Constitution of Sri Lanka: Chapter I – The People, the State and Sovereignty. In 1980 he crushed a general strike by the trade-union movement, jailing its leaders.
Leslie Goonewardene as a young adult with his family, pictured at the centre with his father, Dr. Andrew Simon Goonewardene. Goonewardene was born on 31 October 1909 in Panadura, south-western Ceylon, to the wealthy Goonewardene family, which was active in local colonial-era politics.
1971 JVP insurrection: Marxist insurrection conducted by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna against the government of Sri Lanka. 1972: Sri Lanka becomes a republic, and country's name Ceylon was changes to Sri Lanka: 1983 24–30 July Black July by the government and Sinhalese mobs; Beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War: 1987 29 July Signing of the ...
Under the current constitution of Sri Lanka, the prime minister is the leader of the Cabinet business and also functions as a deputy to the president. In the event a president dies in office, the prime minister becomes the acting president until the Parliament convenes to elect a successor or new elections can be held to elect a new president.