Unpacking Sri Lanka’s historic mandate
The Hindu
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People Power alliance won a staggering mandate in the November 14 parliamentary polls, securing over a two-thirds majority, unprecedented in Sri Lanka’s proportional representation system. How do we understand this seismic shift in Sri Lankan politics? How did the minorities vote? The Hindu’s Sri Lanka Correspondent Meera Srinivasan unpacks Sri Lanka’s historic mandate.
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