Sri lanka has a two party system.There are two domeniant political parties.They are United National Party and Sri Lanka Freedom Party have been the largest party in Sri lanka.The United National Party was the main party in the indipendence movement ocation.D.S.Senanayeka as head became the first prime minister after indipendence.He won a majior victory in 1952 and continued in power untill he died in 1956.The divided oposition failed to agree on a laeader untill 1951 when Solamon Bandaranayeke left the UNP to form the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
UNITED NATIONAL PARTY
The United National Party is founded on 06th of september 1946 by Don.Stephen Senanayeke.Cylone became a dominian in with1948 D.S.Senanayeke as the first priminister.He followed a pro-west,anti- comunist foregn policy much to the Soviet Union.In 1952 priminister Senanayeka died from a riding accident and his son Dadly became priminister.Bandaranayeke quit the party to found the Sri Lanka Fredom party as a blanking force between the UNP and Maxsist parties.
There was a Hartal in 1953 which caused Dadly Senanayeke to resign.He was replased by his cusion,Major John Kothalawala.Held a majority in parliment from December 2001 until April,2004 when it had 109 seats with Ranil Wikramsinghe as priminister.The UNP is a coservative party to the right of the Sri Lankan Freedom Party,favoring a more nio-liberal market oriented economy.The UNP is also member of the International Democratic Union.UNP and twelve other opsition parties in the House of Parliment Sri Lanka signed an oposition Alliance 03 November 2009 in the house of parliment.But,In 2010 election UNP was a failiar to be a huge leader.
SRI LANKA FREEDOM PARTY
leader: Mahinda Rajapakshe
started: 2 september 1951
Head quaters: 301,T.B.Jayamawatha,
Colombo 10.
The Sri L anka Freedom Party is one of the major political partyies in sri lanka It was started by S.W.R.D.Bandaranayeke in 1951.Since then has been one of the two largest parties in the Sri Lanka political arena.It first came to power in 1956.The Party is genarally considered as having a centry left economic agenda.The Sri Lanka Freedom Party is curently a part of the UPFA which is the current roiling party of Sri Lanka.The current leader if the Sri Lanka Freedom Party is Hon.Mahinda Rajapaksa who is the current president of Sri Lanka.At the last legistative elections,held on 2 April 2004,the party was the leading party in the United Peoples Freedom Alliance that won 45.6% of the popular vote and 105 out of 225 seats.After the elections the party became the predominiant party in government with Mahinda Rajapakshe as priminister.Following the 17 November presidentiol elections,SLFP candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected president of Sri Lanka wining 50.3%of the votes cast although having only part suport from his split party.
PEOPLES LIBERATION FRONT
Leader: Somawansa amarasighe
Sarted: May,14
Head quaters: Colombo
News Papers: Niyamuwa/ Red power/ Seenuwa
This is a maxisist-leninist comuunity political party in sri lanka. that party however abandened with comunist ideas which are the maxisist-leninist concepts of right of peoples to self determination in 1980s.this party was involved in two armed uprisings against the roling governments 1971and 1987-1989 after 1989,JVPentered to democratic politics by facing 2004 parlimantary genaral election.leader is Somawansa Amarasinghe started at 1965 may 14 with the aim of providing the leading force for a socialist revalution in sri lanka.head quaters situated at colombo.by this time there are 04 leftist political parties they were thev lanka samsamaja party the first leftist party in 1935 comunity party of sri lanka wich was a break away from the Lanka Samasamja party the Mahajana Eksath peramuna and the CP-Chinese faction This peoriod was a deep economic crices in Lanka.Since the day which obtained the indipendense governed the country main two parties each eight years.(UNP,SLFP)
During this period,Rohona Wijaweera was studing at lumumba univercity in moscow.He became a comited socialiste by reading works of marx Engles and Lenin.When 1964 comuinist prty of sri lanka was divided over the sino soviet split and broke down the chinese faction and soviet faction.the chinese faction led by premalal kumarasiri and wijeweera had came to contact with kumarasiri and joined the parteis starf.1971 JVP had established it self at the political party The majority of the party were adults and young.In spetioly 1971 uprising led by the party was an unsuccessful Maxist youth reballian that climed 15000 youth lives.I march 1971after an accident explotion in one of the bomb factories,the police found fifty -eight bombs in a hut in Nelundeniya kegall district.Shotly wijeweera was arested and sent to jaffna prison.In responce his aresing other JVP leaders disided to act imediatly and agreed to uprising at 11.00 p.m. on April 05.After two weeks of fightning the governement regained control of all but a few remote area.Government was estimated 15,000 inserjents many of them in their teems died in the conflict and the army was widly perceived to have used excerssive force.
The incergency 1987-1989 revolt of the JVP when adroitly exploiting the arrival of the indian peace keeping force and the wide spread nationalist sentiments of large sections of the singhala people the JVP began to terrorise both the state machinary and those sections of civil socity apposed to its thinking and almost brought the state to its knees.Government forces capthurd and killed Wejeweera and his deputy in November 1989 in colombo.By early 1990 they had killed or imprisoned the rimaining JVP politburo and ditained an estimed 7000 JVP members.The bref conflict created turmoil in Sri Lankan national politics and international relations un parralaled in its resent political histry.As a result of the struggle the united front government in power proscribed the JVP in April 197.Then it became and underground organization.In 1978 thry participated in the govenmnt elections.In 1982 the JVPparticipated in the District Divolopment Council election and the presidentiol election in 1982.The JVP was the only radical party that contested the district divolopment counsil election in 1982.During this period, the election commissioner formaly recognised the JVP as a legitimate political party.In 02April 2004,the party was part of the united peoples Freedom Allince that won 45.6% of the popular vote and 105 out of the 225 seats in parliment.As the second largest partner in this allince it became part of the government.Mahinda Rajapakshe was the president in 2005 with JVP majority suport.The brake away group of ten JVP parlimentarience lead by Wimal Weerawansa formed a new political party called Jathika Nidahas Peramuna.party activities began on May14,2008.
today sri lanka political sorrownding rising with a one person opitunities.
