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Background The last direct presidential elections held in Sri Lanka were in 2019, where SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the election in a landslide victory, defeating his main opponent Sajith Premadasa. [5] [6] Rajapaksa would eventually resign on 14 July 2022 amidst the 2022 Sri Lankan protests. [7] This triggered an indirect presidential election via Parliament a week later, to elect a ...
May 1 May – 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election: Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe announces he will run for president. [39] [40] 8 May – The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka rules that SJB MP Diana Gamage holds no Sri Lankan citizenship, and is thus disqualified from her parliamentary seat. [41] [42] 10 May – Mujibur Rahman is reappointed to parliament as a National List MP ...
Next Sri Lankan parliamentary election. Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka before August 2025 according to the constitution. The president has the power under the constitution to hold elections two and half years after the previous elections, which took place in August 2020. [1]
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 .
Background The last local government elections held in Sri Lanka in 2018 saw the newly formed Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) winning a majority of the seats, winning 40% of the votes. [8] [9] [10] The SLPP, led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa would later go on to win the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019 and 2020 respectively, to become ...
2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election ... Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after the previous elections in October 2000.
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] Sajith Premadasa, son of former president Ranasinghe Premadasa and ...
President Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, suggested he’s preparing for legal challenges to the 2024 election results in November, when Biden faces former President Trump in a 2020 rematch.