2020 General Election results and what it means for the country
Having voted for a new parliament, we need to look at the next five years and discuss what the future holds for us. First, we need to address the elephant in the room. In fact, the elephant is no more. We need to write its' post-mortem . The people have killed the biggest political party in Sri Lanka. Do not get us wrong. We don't care one bit about the UNP, it's leadership or their donors. The problem is that with a dead UNP, the new government has no real opposition. They have a 2/3 majority in the parliament. Given their political practice, they will use it to pad up their own pockets. We cannot expect the Samagi Jana Balawega MPs' to act as a real opposition. That much was evident from Sajith's press conference. He was more concerned with how his party performed compared to the UNP, than what needs to be done in the next five years. Herein lies the opposition’s problem. While the president presented a technocratic political system, the “opposition” was...