Over 16 million citizens in Sri Lanka will on Wednesday have a chance to choose their representatives to Parliament in the all-island surveys that the judgment Rajapaksa administration is aiming to sweep with a two-thirds majority.
Following President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s rise to power last year on a big mandate, his Sri Lanka Podujana Celebration (SLPP, or Individuals’s Party) is looking for a decisive parliamentary majority to modify the Constitution, especially the 19 th Change passed during the previous federal government’s term that clips the President’s executive powers.
