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The Sri Lanka Labour Party ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා කම්කරු පක්ෂය) is a political party which is led by A.S.P.Liyanage. The secretary is Miss P.D.K.K.P.Liyanage. The official logo is a kangaroo.
Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. "Sri Lanka". Leftist Parties of the World. 22 June 2004. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011 "The List of Political Party/Group in Sri Lanka (1945-2004)". Sri Lanka Statistics.
A. Ekanayake Gunasinha. Alexander Ekanayake Gunasinha (1 May 1891 – 1 August 1967) was a Sri Lankan trade unionist and politician. A pioneering trade union leader, known as the "Father of the Labour Movement", he was the founder of the Ceylon Labour Party, Sri Lanka's first labour organisation. A former mayor of Colombo, he served as the ...
Politics of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a unitary multi-party semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Ministers. Legislative power is vested in the ...
v. t. e. Sri Lanka elects on the national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. Sri Lanka has a multi-party system, with two dominant political parties. All elections are administered by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka .
The Ceylon Labour Party (CLP) was a political party in Sri Lanka. History [ edit ] The Ceylon Labour Party was formed in October 1928, with A. E. Gunasinha as president and Proctor Marshall Perera as secretary.
The Sri Lankan independence movement was a peaceful political movement which was aimed at achieving independence and self-rule for the country of Sri Lanka, then British Ceylon, from the British Empire. The switch of powers was generally known as peaceful transfer of power from the British administration to Ceylon representatives, a phrase that ...
Electoral system. The Parliament has 225 members elected for a five-year term. 196 members are elected from 22 multi-seat constituencies through a proportional representation system where each party is allocated a number of seats from the quota for each constituency according to the proportion of the total vote that party obtains in the district.