Sri Lanka’s Elusive Democratic Renewal | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Sri Lanka’s Elusive Democratic Renewal | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Summary:
- Sri Lanka’s 2024 elections occurred amid a severe economic crisis and the Aragalaya mass movement, which united people across divides to demand end to corruption and entrenched impunity.
- The National People’s Power (NPP), a left-leaning coalition led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won a two-thirds parliamentary majority (159 of 225) and pledged sweeping reforms: abolish the executive presidency, renegotiate the IMF program on fair terms, create a director of public
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