The Conflict
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in December
2018 said that the President’s Maithripala Sirisena’s move in November 2018 for
dissolving Parliament and calling for snap polls was illegal.
The conflict happened during October 2018 between the president and the Prime Minister. On October 26, the President Mr. Sirisena dismissed the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe, and appointed the former President Mahinda Rajapaksha in his place.
However, before it there were a series
of events where legistlature engaged in squabbling in Parliament, and attacked the
speaker, police personnel with Parliamentary equipment. Even, there were accusation of
attacking the opponent with water mixed with chili powder.The conflict happened during October 2018 between the president and the Prime Minister. On October 26, the President Mr. Sirisena dismissed the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe, and appointed the former President Mahinda Rajapaksha in his place.
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Ranil Wickremsinghe
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President Maithipala Sirisena
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There are three main people- President
Maithipala Sirisena, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and Prime Miniser Ranil
Wickremesinghe. There are two political
parties involved – the first is- SLFP – Sri Lanka Freedom Party and United
National Party (UNP). Sirisena and Rajapaksa are from SLFP while Wickremsinghe
is from United National Party(UNP).
Wickremesinghe’s United
National Party (UNP) together with the country’s Tamil and Muslim minorities
voted for Sirisena, who made Wickremesinghe his prime minister. However, two
could not get along. There was massive corruption in Wickremsinghe’s henchmen,
and it increased tension.
The event sparked biggest
political crisis in Srilankan history since the civil war has ended in 2008. The island nation did not have any legitimate
government or cabinet, and due to these instable events the economy which is
largely depending upon tourism has faced a low. On 3rd December
there was an appeal in court to restrain the acting Prime Minister. Mr. Ranil
Wickremesinghe was sworn as a Prime Minister after being sacked in October
2018.
Ranil Wickremsinghe belongs
to United Naional Party, and came back to power after the order of the Supreme
Court. In temporary period when the
power tussle was going one – the Prime Minister ‘s office was handled by
Mahinda Rajapaksa, and he resigned after court’s order.
