Former Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe returns to Parliament
The Hindu
Slams Rajapaksa government’s economic policy, ‘militarisation’
Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday returned to Parliament, ten months after his United National Party (UNP) . In the first intervention by his party in the current legislature, Mr. Wickremesinghe slammed the Rajapaksa government on its economic policy that, he said, lacked a plan amid a crisis, and growing militarisation of civil services. Though the UNP did not get elected in a single constituency in the country in the August 2020 general elections, it could nominate one of its members to the 225-member House based on Sri Lanka’s ‘nationalist list’ system, where in a party can secure a seat depending on its share of the cumulative votes polled.
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