Sri Lankan governing coalition likely to survive opposition local election win but economic policy …
Feb 132018
The SLPP, formed in 2016 after Rajapaksa effectively split from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), won 225 of 340 local council seats across the country. Sri Lanka's main ruling parties – the United National Party (UNP) and the SLFP – contested the elections separately and won 41 and 11 seats, …