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Analysis |
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You can read the most impartial indepth analysis of the most important events happening in Sri Lanka with a special emphasis on politics. |
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A brand new peace process? |
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President Rajapaksha, clearly set out the intended policy direction, while pronouncing his policy statement at the traditional opening session of the parliament of Sri Lanka.
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While South is ready for talks, North is ready for war |
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While the LTTE is engaged in violence at its will, the Sri Lankan government has consolidated its position with regard to the basic structural requirements to start peace negotiation. |
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Sri Lankan peace process and facing the reality |
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Sri Lanka peace process:Facing the reality is hard most often than not. Before and during his campaign president Rajapaksha criticized Norway |
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Presidential Election 2005: Friends in need |
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Uncertainty will be hovering in the political skies of Sri Lanka until the day of the election. Some of the public statements of leading politicians could be signals of what is yet to come. |
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Be careful not to catch the Sri Lankan Syndrome |
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Sri Lankan Syndrome has many facets and faces. One form of this syndrome is that only a handful of people are capable of stepping down honourably after holding prestigious positions in the country. On one hand as a result of their own acts |
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Presidential Election 2005: Impact on the peace process |
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The 2005 presidential election and its out come are extremely crucial to Sri Lanka, due to its direct impact on the fragile peace process. |
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Presidential Election 2005: Letters are better ? |
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As the Sri Lankan presidential election is getting closer and closer, it is becoming extremely difficult to predict a winner beforehand due to unprecedented polarised nature of two major camps. |
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Presidential Election 2005: All set for the D day |
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All set for one of the most crucial presidential elections of the post independence political history of Sri Lanka. On the 17 the November, the people of Sri Lanka will elect the 5th executive president under the present constitution. |
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Mahinda's B'day gift wrapped up with challenges |
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Th presidential election of Sri Lanka, 2005. Mahinda Rajapaksha won the election and is the elcted president of democratic socialist repulic of Sri Lanka. |
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Presidential Election 2005: What's the importance? |
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On the 17 November 2005,the people of Sri Lanka will decide the future political direction of the country. This election is extremely crucial in shaping the country's fragile peace process and the economy. |
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Presidential Election 2005: Ranil vs Mahinda |
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Presidential candidates, Premier Mahinda Rajapaksha and the Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minster Ranil Wickramasinghe are both strong candidates in their own ways. Both contenders are seasoned politicians. |
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Presidential Election 2005: Organising power |
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The winner or looser of an election is not merely decided by the charisma and the personality of leaders, especially when the contenders are equal in their own ways . |
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Presidential Election 2005: Strange bedfellows ! |
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In another development, the opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe strategically or otherwise wrote a letter to the President a few weeks ago inviting her to join hands with him leading to a common ground with regards to the peace process |
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Election Results: Presidential Election 2005 |
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2005 Presidential elction of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka was held on the 17 November. This is the 5th Sri Lankan presidential election under the present constitution. |
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