The democratic experience will have lasted five years. The victory of the Popular Front of Sri Lanka (SLPP), led by brothers Gotabaya and Mahinda Rajapaksa in the legislative elections of August 5, confirms the return of authoritarianism in Sri Lanka. Yet the promises of the democratic system embodied by President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe after their victory in the presidential and legislative elections of 2015 were beautiful. The two men had formed a coalition in Parliament to put an end to Mahinda Rajapaksa's authoritarian abuses. Go back.
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When Mahinda Rajapaksa loses the presidential election in January 2015, after ten years in power, the population wants a new lease of life. Sri Lankans of the Sinhalese ethnicity adulate this charismatic leader who came to the end of 26 years of Tamil separatist insurgency in 2009. But after the war, the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa diverted part of Chinese investments, consolidated a capitalism of connivance and repressed
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