Galle Face protestors expelled the Rajapaksa trio from power and paved the way for democracy, enabling MP Ranil Wickremesinghe to become the president, but what he did was to send the military and the police to wage a barbaric attack on those very same protestors, said MP Patali Champika Ranawaka.

Member of Parliament Dinesh Gunawardena has taken oaths as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

State intelligence had received information that Galle Face protestors had been planning to smuggle all state documents out of the Presidential Secretariat by this afternoon (22), Defence Ministry sources say.

Angry divisions have surfaced within the membership of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) after it decided to support the presidential candidacy of Dullas Daham Alahapperuma,

The leader of a certain political party has reportedly instructed all his MPs to mark the vote and take a picture before putting it into the ballot box at tomorrow’s (20) parliamentary vote to elect a president.

The Supreme Court today (19) dismissed a fundamental rights petition seeking the invalidation of the parliamentary seat of acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The Dullas Alahapperuma-Sajith Premadasa coalition has extended an invitation to former president and the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Maithripala Sirisena to become the speaker, it is learnt.

A party to the struggle, named Black Cap Movement, urges all presidential hopefuls to immediately declare their plans for the future.

Trade unions have put forward a set of proposals to resolve the prevailing conflict in the country that wants acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe to leave office and an interim government formed for a six-month period during which an election is held.

Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday sought the assistance of the British government and their intelligence services in the investigation of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks.