Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna

Political party in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka People's Front

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ
இலங்கை பொதுஜன முன்னணி

Abbreviation| SLPP
Leader| Mahinda Rajapaksa[1]
Chairperson| Ven. Prof. Uthurawala Dhammarathana Thero[2]
General Secretary| Sagara Kariyawasam
Founder| Basil Rajapaksa
Founded| 2016; 9 years ago (2016)
Split from| Sri Lanka Freedom Party[3]
Preceded by| The Sri Lanka National Front
Headquarters| 1316 Nelum Mawatha, Jayanthipura, Battaramulla[4]
Youth wing| Sri Lanka People's Youth Front
Ideology|

* Neoconservatism
* Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism[7]
* Right-wing populism[10]

Political position| Right-wing[12]
National affiliation| Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance
Colours|  Maroon
Slogan| අපි අපේ රට හදමු!
('Let's Build Our Country!')
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Local Government Bodies|

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Election symbol
Flower bud

Party flag
Website
slpp.org

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* Political parties
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Aragalaya

* Rajapaksa family
* Corruption
* Politics

Background

Existing political culture

* Authoritarianism
* Bribery
* Censorship
* Corruption
* Cronyism
* Enforced disappearances
* Extrajudicial killings
* Fake news
* Gender inequality
* Hate speech
* Impunity
* Kleptocracy
* Nepotism
* Political dynasties
* State terrorism

Pre-2022 political instabilty

* 2015 presidential election
* coup attempt
* 2015 parliamentary election
* 15th parliament (Yahapalana Government)
* Central Bank bond scandal
* anti-Muslim riots
* 2018
* 2019
* 2018 constitutional crisis
* 2019 Easter bombings
* 2019 presidential election
* 2020 parliamentary election
* 16th parliament

Economic crisis (2019–present)

Causes

* COVID-19 pandemic
* Tax cuts and money creation
* Agricultural catastrophe
* Foreign exchange crisis
* Russian invasion of Ukraine
* Global energy crisis

Effects

* Political crisis
* IMF loan
* Poverty

Political crisis (2022–present)

Opponents & demands

* Opponents

* Rajapaksa family & SLPP politicians
* Ranil Wickremesinghe & UNP politicians

* Demands

1\. Resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa 2\. Accountability for corruption 3\. Economic reforms 4\. Access to essential services 5\. Political reforms 6\. Youth participation

Protests

* Occupy Galle Face
* Gotagogama
* Mynagogama
* Black Monday attacks on protesters
* Resignation of Mahinda Rajapaksa
* Storming of President's House
* Flight & Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa
* Flight of Rajapaksa family and associates
* Crackdown on protests

Government overthrow

* 16th Parliament
* Rajapaksa Administration
* Rajapaksa cabinet I
* II
* III
* IV
* 2022 Presidential election
* Wickremesinghe Administration
* Wickremesinghe cabinet

Elections of 2024

* 2024 Presidential
* Dissanayake cabinet
* 2024 parliamentary
* 17th Parliament
* 2024 Elpitiya

Legacy

Legacy

* Art of the Aragalaya

* Politics
* Sri Lanka

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The Sri Lanka People's Front (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ, romanized: Śrī Laṃkā Podujana Peramuna; Tamil: இலங்கை பொதுஜன முன்னணி, romanized: Ilaṅkai Potujaṉa Muṉṉaṇi), commonly known by its Sinhalese name Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), is a political party in Sri Lanka. It was the ruling party in Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022 and was the largest party in parliament from 2020 to 2024.[13] Previously a minor political party known as the Sri Lanka National Front (SLNF) and Our Sri Lanka Freedom Front (OSLFF), it was relaunched in 2016 as the SLPP and the party became the base for members of the United People's Freedom Alliance loyal to its former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Rajapaksa family.[5]

The party was formed as a result of a split from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), a centre-left, Sinhalese nationalist, and post-colonial party.[11] The SLPP borrowed some elements of the SLFP ideology but not its economic outlook,[11] and is opposed to federalism in Sri Lanka.[14] The party is led by Mahinda Rajapaksa,[15] a former president of Sri Lanka. Sagara Kariyawasam is the general secretary of the party. G. L. Peiris was formerly the chairman of the party before defecting to form the Freedom People's Congress.[16]

## Background

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### Sri Lanka National Front

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The Sri Lanka National Front (Sri Lanka Jathika Peramuna) contested the 2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election in 15 of the 22 electoral districts across the country. The party failed to win a single seat in the Parliament of Sri Lanka after securing 719 votes (about 0.01% of all votes cast).[17] The SLNF contested again in the 2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election in 17 of the 22 electoral districts but once again failed to win any seats in Parliament after securing 493 votes (0.01%).[18] SLNF leader Wimal Geeganage contested the 2005 Sri Lankan presidential election and came in eighth after securing 6,639 votes (0.07%).[19]

The SLNF contested the 2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election in 19 of the 22 electoral districts but failed to win any seats in Parliament after securing 5,313 votes (0.07%) across the country.[20] Geeganage contested in the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election and came in last place, at 19th, after securing 1,826 votes (0.02%).[21]

### Our Sri Lanka Freedom Front

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In 2015, the SLNF changed its name to Our Sri Lanka Freedom Front (Ape Sri Lanka Nidahas Peramuna) and its symbol from the cricket bat to a flower bud.[22][23] In early 2016, OSLFF leader Geeganage hinted that a change in the party leadership was soon to come.[24]

## History

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### Founding

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In November 2016, the OSLFF relaunched itself as the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, a political front for the Joint Opposition, and appointed G. L. Peiris, the country's former minister of foreign affairs and Rajapaksa ally, as its chairman.[25][26] Attorney Sagara Kariyawasam, a former organizer of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and attorney for former president Rajapaksa and his brother, former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa,[27][28][29] was appointed as the party secretary. The flower bud remained as the symbol of the party.[30][31] Basil Rajapaksa, another brother of Rajapaksa, joined the SLPP shortly after it was relaunched.[32]

### Electoral successes

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In the 2018 Sri Lankan local elections, in a surprise result, the SLPP won a 40% plurality of votes, emerging as the party with the most councilors and local authorities;[33][34] they won 239 Local Government Bodies including Municipals Councils, Urban Councils, and Pradeshiya Sabhas.[35] The SLPP contested in the election under its flower bud symbol.[36] In the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election, the younger brother of the Rajapaksas contested in the elections as the SLPP candidate and later won the election and was sworn in as the new president of Sri Lanka.[37][38] In the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, the SLPP won a landslide victory and a clear majority in the parliament, winning 116 seats in Parliament. Five members of the Rajapaksa family won seats in the parliament, and the former president Rajapaksa was sworn in as the new prime minister of Sri Lanka.[39]

### Economic crisis

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Main article: Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present)

The Rajapaksa administration introduced massive tax cuts in late 2019,[40] which lead to a drop in government revenue that was soon compounded with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw the island nation losing its lucrative US$3 billion tourism industry that put 200,000 out of work in 2020 and most of 2021. Although the export sector picked up by 2021 and tourism started picking up, it appeared that Sri Lanka was facing its most severe economic crisis since its independence in 1948 due to the loss of revenue from tax cuts, rampant money printing and unsustainable borrowings. By end of 2021, Sri Lanka was facing a debt crisis with a possibility of sovereign default. According to a poll conducted by Verité Research in March 2022, the government's approval rating had fallen to just 10% as a result of the crisis.[41]

Following severe shortages of fuel, the state owned Ceylon Electricity Board was forced to implement 10–13 hour power cuts across the island in late March. The SLPP government was beginning to grow increasingly unpopular. This triggered the 2022 Sri Lankan protests, which demanded the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa and other key officials from the Rajapaksa family.[42][43][44] On 3 April, several ministers in the second Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet submitted their resignations. This included three ministers from the Rajapaksa family: Chamal Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa, and Namal Rajapaksa.[45] The president was to announce the new cabinet the following day. On 18 April, Rajapaksa appointed 17 new cabinet members, selected among his party members. This move was seen as a sign of Rajapaksa's lack of willingness to listen and adhere to the protesters' demands.[46]

On 9 May, Rajapaksa tendered his resignation as prime minister to the president.[47] Rajapaksa was heavily criticised by netizens and the public for resigning after instigating violence against peaceful protests.[48] Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the new prime minister on 12 May. Eventually, protests peaked on 9 July, after large numbers of protesters gathered at Chatham Street, near the President's House, Colombo, demanding his immediate resignation. Protesters also broke into the Presidential Secretariat and Temple Trees, the prime minister's official residence,[49] and gathered around the private residence at 115 Fifth Lane of Wickremesinghe. The speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka issued a statement that night that Rajapaksa would resign from office on 13 July.[50][51] Political parties including the country's opposition agreed to form an all-party interim government after the president's resignation.[52][53] Wickremesinghe also announced that he would be willing to resign as prime minister, saying that he would do so once a new government was formed.[54][55]

#### Self-exile and resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa

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On the morning of 13 July, Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka and appointed Wickremesinghe as acting president in his absence. Rajapaksa emailed a letter of resignation to the speaker of the parliament on 14 July the next day, thus marking the end of Rajapaksa's presidency.[56] The news of his resignation was celebrated by the public mainly at Galle Face and also in the other parts of Colombo.[57] On 15 July, the parliamentary speaker Mahinda Yapa Abewardhana announced the official resignation of Rajapaksa.[58] Wickremesinghe was officially sworn in as the acting president,[59] and was later elected in the 2022 Sri Lankan presidential election by the Parliament of Sri Lanka to complete the remainder of Rajapaksa's term.[60]

During the 2022 Sri Lankan presidential election, Dinesh Gunawardena temporarily succeeded Mahinda Rajapaksa as the de facto leader of the SLPP.[61] Gunawardena would later become Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. On 15 December 2023, the National Convention of the SLPP was held, in which Mahinda Rajapaksa was reappointed as the party leader.[62][63]

### 2024 presidential election

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In 2024, there was much speculation whether the SLPP would field its own candidate or endorse incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe at the 2024 presidential election. In late July 2024, the SLPP announced that it would not endorse Wickremesinghe in the election.[64] On 7 August 2024, the SLPP announced Namal Rajapaksa, son of Mahinda Rajapaksa, as its candidate in the 2024 presidential election. He was the youngest candidate in the election.[65] Rajapaksa was eliminated after the first vote count, placing 4th behind Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sajith Premadasa and Ranil Wickremesinghe and winning only 2.57% of the popular vote.[66]

### 2024 Parliamentary election

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From the election results so far it is apparent that the NPP is on the threshold of obtaining a two-thirds majority in Parliament , or fall slightly short. The SLPP managed to secure only 3 seats including one bonus seat (national list) in the Parliament through the results of the 2024 Election. The number of total votes obtained by the SLPP, once the largest party in Parliament from 2020 to 2024, was only 350,429 (3.14%) in this year’s parliamentary poll.[67]

If the NPP gets a two-thirds majority, it is the first time under the Proportional Representation system that one party has got a two thirds majority in Parliament. In 2010 the United People's Freedom Alliance and in 2020 the SLPP fell just short of a two thirds and had to get the support of some opposition members to get a two thirds majority.[68]

## Ideology

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The SLPP split from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), a centre-left, Sinhalese nationalist, and post-colonial party, which political scientist Jayadeva Uyangoda described as "a progressive, social democratic, centre-left political party, that made tremendous contribution to social change and democracy".[11] The SLPP borrowed the elements of nationalism from the SLFP but not its economic outlook.[11] The party is opposed to federalism in Sri Lanka.[14]

In 2019, the SLPP began to outperform the SLFP, which did not field a candidate in the 2019 presidential election.[11] The split and rightward turn of the SLPP,[3] which moved towards neo-nationalism and right-wing populism,[8][9] corresponded with the shifts of the nation's two other major parties: Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna moved closer to social democracy and democratic socialism, while Sajith Premadasa's free-market oriented United National Party (and later the Samagi Jana Balawegaya) became more supportive of welfare.[11] Uyangoda described the SLPP as "a right wing, neo-conservative party that favours authoritarianism", and commented: "Though ironically created by the SLFP, the SLPP doesn't replace it, it merely displaces it. The SLPP will undoubtedly tread a free market-oriented path but have Mahinda Rajapaksa to disguise its policy in state-capitalist rhetoric."[11] Ahead of the 2019 elections, Deshika Elapata, a junior researcher of the European Institute for Asian Studies, described the SLPP as "a socially right-wing and economically left-wing party rooted in Sinhalese nationalism and social democracy".[6]

## Electoral history

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### Presidential

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Election year  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | Result

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2005 | Wimal Geeganage | 6,639 | 0.07% | Lost
2015 | Wimal Geeganage | 1,826 | 0.02% | Lost
2019 | Gotabaya Rajapaksa | 6,924,255 | 52.25% | Won
2022[a] | Supported Ranil Wickremesinghe | 134 (E.V) | 61.19% | Won
Dullas Alahapperuma | 82 (E.V) | 37.44% | Lost
2024 | Namal Rajapaksa | 342,781 | 2.57% | Lost

### Parliamentary

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Election year  | Votes  | Vote %  | Seats won  | +/–  | Leader  | Result for the party

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2001 | 719  | 0.01%  |

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| New | Wimal Geeganage  | Extra-parliamentary
2004 | 493  | 0.01%  |

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|  | Wimal Geeganage  | Extra-parliamentary
2010 | 5,313  | 0.07%  |

0 / 225

|  | Wimal Geeganage  | Extra-parliamentary
2020 | 6,853,690  | 59.09%  |

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[b] |  145  | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Government
2024 | 350,429  | 3.14%  |

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|  142  | Opposition

### Local

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Election year  | Votes  | Vote %  | Councillors  | Local Authorities  | +/–  | Leader

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2018 | 5,006,837  | 40.47%  |

3,436 / 8,327

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2019 (Elpitiya) | 23,372  | 56.3%  |

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2024 (Elpitiya) | 3,597  | 9.91%  |

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## See also

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* 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis
* 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis
* 2022 Sri Lankan protests
* Rajapaksa family

## Notes

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1. ^ This was an indirect election. During this election, one faction of the SLPP supported Wickremesinghe from the UNP, while the other faction supported Alahapperuma from the SLPP.
2. ^ Total number of seats won by SLPFA, SLPP alone won 100 seats

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* Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya
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* Tamil People's National Alliance
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Former political parties|

* All Ceylon Islamic United Front
* All Ceylon Malay Political Union
* Aziz Democratic Workers Congress
* Bolshevik Samasamaja Party
* Buddhist Republican Party
* Ceylon Labour Party
* Ceylon National Congress
* Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna
* Lanka Democratic Party
* Lanka Mahajana Sabha
* Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary)
* People's Front of Liberation Tigers
* Sinhala Maha Sabha
* Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party
* Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
* United Lanka Congress
* Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party

Former political alliances|

* SLFP-led alliances
* Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (1956–1957)
* United Front (1968–1977)
* People's Alliance (1994–2004)
* United People's Freedom Alliance (2004–2019)
* Joint Opposition (2015–2018)
* Freedom People's Alliance (2023–2024)

* UNP-led alliances
* United National Front (2001–2020)

* Other
* National Unity Alliance
* Tamil National Liberation Alliance
* Democratic National Alliance
* Left Liberation Front
* Socialist Alliance
* Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (2019–2022)
* Tamil National Alliance

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