From Real Election to Realpolitik

Photograph courtesy Wall Street Journal

by Tisaranee Gunasekara 

- on 08/23/2015 

“His (Mahinda Rajapaksa’s) chief interest will be to strike a deal on the corruption investigations against himself and his family.”

Manik de Silva (CNN – 19.8.2015)

The UPFA fought two consecutive elections in an imaginary country and lost them both. In that imaginary country the minority vote was of less value and weight; and the absolute majority of Sinhala-Buddhists yearned to live under the patriotic-yoke of the Rajapaksas.

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