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In 2010, General Sarath Fonseka, a former Chief of Defence Staff and former Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, was the NDF candidate in the 2010 presidential elections. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He was contesting in the elections as the "joint opposition candidate", [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and was supported by the United National Party (UNP) and the Janatha Vimukthi ...
This article lists political parties in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has a multi-party political system. Starting from the early 1950s, Sri Lankan politics was mostly dominated by two political parties and their respective coalitions: the centre-left social democratic Sri Lanka Freedom Party; the centre-right liberal conservative United National Party
The combined North Eastern Province occupied one third of Sri Lanka. The thought of the Tamil Tigers controlling this province, directly or indirectly, alarmed them greatly. On 14 July 2006, after a long campaign against the merger, the JVP filed three separate petitions with the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka requesting a separate Provincial ...
President of Sri Lanka; Prime Minister of Sri Lanka; Speaker of the Parliament; Chief Justice of Sri Lanka. Leader of the Opposition; Ministers of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka; Field marshal; Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka [2] Provincial Governors (within their respective provinces) Provincial Chief Ministers (within their respective ...
The leader of the council majority serves as the province's Chief Minister with a board of ministers; a provincial governor is appointed by the president. The Provincial Councils have full statute making power with respect to the Provincial Council List, and shared statute making power respect to the Concurrent List .
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 8 Dudley Senanayake cabinet III: 25 March 1965: 29 May 1970: Dudley Senanayake: United National Party: 9 Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet II: 29 May 1970: 23 July 1977: William Gopallawa (1972–1978) Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 Jayewardene cabinet I: 23 July 1977: 7 September 1978: J. R. Jayewardene ...
As per the Provincial Councils (Payment of Salaries and Allowances) Act, No. 37 of 1988, the chief minister is entitled to monthly salary and allowances equal of the governor, less than fifty rupees. [6] In addition, since all chief ministers are members of provincial council they are entitled to allowances and benefits of provincial councilor.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 7 September 1994 12 July 1998 [3] 5 G. M. S. Samaraweera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party 1998 27 August 2003 [3] 6 Jagath Balasuriya: Sri Lanka Freedom Party 27 August 2003 13 November 2006 [3] 7 Karunarathna Divulgane: Independent: 13 November 2006 27 January 2015 [3] 8 P. B. Dissanayake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party 27 January ...