Sri Lanka: Democracy and Its Necessary Discontents

This therefore is the SLFP’s DUNF moment. Like the DUNF, Mahinda & Co is unlikely to win more than 10% of the vote. And if there is a post-election haemorrhaging, the flow is likely to be from Mahinda Rajapaksa’s rump faction to the official SLFP and not the other way around.

“…..the politician who claims that his administration is perfect is a tyrant.” Timothy Ferris (The Science of Liberty)

by Tisaranee Gunasekara

( April 19, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Eight hundred years ago England’s King John gave his unwilling consent to Magna Carta. The Great Charter offered a modicum of protection from arbitrary royal power to ‘free men’. In that time ‘free men’ were few and far between, amounting to no more than a quarter of England’s population.

Sri Lanka Democracy and Its Necessary Discontents by Thavam Ratna