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The '''2019 Sri Lankan presidential election''' will be the 8th [[President of Sri Lanka|presidential election]], scheduled to be held on 16th November 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Presidential poll between Nov. 9 and Dec. 9: EC |url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Presidential-poll-between-Nov--9-and-Dec--9:-EC/108-167497?fbclid=IwAR0IyTfMVuLgPWuL3i50YwZAp9LgubUJ9Wae7bEpEQlPctLcuu26EYLY9Xc |website=www.dailymirror.lk |publisher=Daily Mirror |accessdate=13 August 2019 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="Onlanka 280518">{{cite web |title=Possibility of a snap presidential election anytime after 9 January 2019 ::. Latest Sri Lanka News |url=https://www.onlanka.com/news/possibility-of-a-snap-presidential-election-anytime-after-9-january-2019.html |website=ONLANKA News :. Latest Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates {{!}} Sri Lanka News |accessdate=8 January 2019 |date=28 May 2018}}</ref> The incumbent President [[Maithripala Sirisena]]'s term of office will end on 9 January 2020, however he is eligible to run for a second term.<ref name="Onlanka 280518" /> The [[Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka]] will see that after this election more executive power will be vested in the office of the [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka|Prime Minister]].
The '''2019 Sri Lankan presidential election''' will be the 8th [[President of Sri Lanka|presidential election]], scheduled to be held on 16th November 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Presidential poll between Nov. 9 and Dec. 9: EC |url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Presidential-poll-between-Nov--9-and-Dec--9:-EC/108-167497?fbclid=IwAR0IyTfMVuLgPWuL3i50YwZAp9LgubUJ9Wae7bEpEQlPctLcuu26EYLY9Xc |website=www.dailymirror.lk |publisher=Daily Mirror |accessdate=13 August 2019 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="Onlanka 280518">{{cite web |title=Possibility of a snap presidential election anytime after 9 January 2019 ::. Latest Sri Lanka News |url=https://www.onlanka.com/news/possibility-of-a-snap-presidential-election-anytime-after-9-january-2019.html |website=ONLANKA News :. Latest Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates {{!}} Sri Lanka News |accessdate=8 January 2019 |date=28 May 2018}}</ref> The incumbent President [[Maithripala Sirisena]]'s term of office will end on 9 January 2020, however he is eligible to run for a second term.<ref name="Onlanka 280518" />


==Timeline==
==Timeline==

Revision as of 09:45, 10 October 2019

2019 Sri Lankan presidential election
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Sajith Premadasa.jpg
Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa.jpg
Candidate Sajith Premadasa Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
Party UNP SLPP
Alliance New Democratic Front Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
Incumbent President

Maithripala Sirisena
Sri Lanka Freedom Party



The 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election will be the 8th presidential election, scheduled to be held on 16th November 2019.[1][2] The incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena's term of office will end on 9 January 2020, however he is eligible to run for a second term.[2]

Timeline

2018
2019
  • 9 January - President Maithripala Sirisena eligible to call for presidential elections anytime after this date.[2]
  • 31 January - President Sirisena is approved unanimously as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party's candidate during the Party's Anuradhapura district convention.[3][4]
  • 6 March - Gotabhaya Rajapaksa submits application through the United States Embassy to renounce his US citizenship.[5]
  • 26 March - Gotabhaya Rajapaksa travels to the United States for a personal visit, where he also expects to expedite his request to renounce his citizenship.[5][6]
  • 7 April - While in the United States, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is served with notice of two separate civil lawsuits against him in California, USA, over the assassination of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge as well as on behalf of a Tamil torture survivor Roy Samathanam.[7][8]
  • 12 April - Gotabhaya Rajapaksa returns to Sri Lanka from the United States.[9]
  • 21 April - 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
  • 27 April - Gotabhaya Rajapaksa announces he will run for president.[10]
  • 11 August - Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Sri Lanka Podujana Party officially announces Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to be its presidential candidate.[11]
  • 12 August - Several members of the United National Party organized a rally in Badulla to promote Sajith Premadasa as the UNP candidate even though the party has yet to name a official candidate. Sajith premadasa clearly shows his intentions to run for the presidency.[12] All UNF mp's in Badulla attend to this rally, also Harsha , Eran , Ajith, Sujeewa, Ranith, Ranjith Aluwihare, Wasantha Aluwihare, Chandrani, Buddhika, Hesha, Ashok, and several mp's attended to it.
  • 18 August - Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka announced as the presidential candidate of the newly-formed political alliance "National People's Power" in a rally held at Galle Face.[13]
  • 23 August - Huge rally in Matara, which is organized by Mangala Samaraweera to pledge support to Sajith as UNP candidate.
  • 5 September - Huge rally in Kurunegala, which is organized by all Kurunegala UNP mp's except Akila to support to Sajith as UNP candidate.
  • 5 September - Sri Lanka Freedom Party has informed the Elections Commission that the they will be fielding a candidate for the upcoming presidential election[14]
  • 6 September - Prime minister and the leader of United National Party, Ranil Wickremesinghe reportedly expressed his intentions to be the presidential candidate of his party.[15]
  • 8 September - Unauthorized pandal of Gotabhaya collapsed and injured a mother and a daughter at Maharagama. [1]
  • 15 September - The National Elections Commission gets the power to call for a Presidential Election at any time[16]
  • 18 September -Department of government prining Sri Lanka gazetted an extraordinary gazette, no 2141/25 as the and noticed 07 th October 2019 as date of nominations and, 16 th November as the date of election with the consultation of the election commission Sri Lanka.
  • 24 September 2019 - Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe agreed to nominate UNP Deputy Leader minister Sajith Premadasa as the Presidential Candidate of the United National Front but need to be approved by the working committee of the party.[17]
  • 26 September 2019 - United National Party schedule its working committee meets at Sirikotha to select its candidate by party law.[18]
  • 26 September 2019 - Working committee of United National Party unanimously decided Sajith Premadasa as presidential candidate.
  • 29 September 2019 - Sri Lanka’s ex-Army chief Mahesh Senanayake announced that he would contest for president under a non political National People’s Movement (NPM), a collective of island-wide civil society organisations. [19]
  • 30 September -The Court of Appeal has decided to support the petition against recognizing former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa as a citizen of Sri Lanka on October 2nd. [20]
  • 1 October - Gotabaya Rajapaksa seek court permission to travel to Singapore from 9th to 12th October for a medical issue.[21]
  • 2 October - A three-judge bench of the Court of Appeal has commenced the petition filed against recognizing former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa as a Sri Lankan citizen. [22]
  • 3 October - United National Party holds its National Convention at the Sudathasada Indoor Stadium to officially name Sajith Premadasa as candidate to the public.[23]
  • 4 October - Charges against Gotabhaya Rajapaksa's citizenship issue was dismissed by the court and allowed him to contest at the upcoming election.[24][25]
  • 5 October - The first ever Presidential debate among candidates took place.[26] All the main candidates except Gotabhaya Rajapaksa took part in the event.[27]
  • 7 October - Nomination for the next president at 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. 33 candidates are set to be nominated.[28]
  • 16 November- Election for the next president at 7.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.[29][30]
  • 17 November 2019 - President Maithripala Sirisena's 1st term of office ends.[2]
  • 9 December 2019 - Last day for the president elect to be sworn-in as president, however he can be sworn in anytime after the election commission announces the winner.

Prior to the election

Sri Lankan recent election results
Dates of elections United National Party
(UNFGG) 		Sri Lanka Freedom Party
(UPFA) 		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Tamil National Alliance Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Independents
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
2015 Presidential election 6,217,162 51.28% [i] 5,768,090 47.58% － － － － － － － － － －
2015 Parliamentary election 5,098,916 45.66% [ii] 4,732,664 42.38% － － 515,963 4.62% 543,944 4.87% 44,193 0.40% 42,828 0.38%
2018 local elections 3,640,620 29.42% 1,497,234 12.10% 5,006,837 40.47% 337,877 2.73% 710,932 5.75% 92,897[iii] 0.75% 374,132 3.02%
Sri Lankan political map prior to this election
Presidential election, 2015 Parliamentary election, 2015
Elected members of each electoral district or municipalities, gaining the highest number of votes:
  United People's Freedom Alliance
  United National Party/United National Front for Good Governance
  New Democratic Front led by the United National Party
  Tamil National Alliance

Nominations


United National Party (UNP)

United National Party didn't field a presidential candidate in both 2010 and 2015 elections and supported a common candidate. Even though they won the 2015 election and elected Maithripala Sirisena from their support, relations between the president and the UNP was shaky from the beginning. Power struggle between the president and UNP prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe led to the 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis. In the aftermath of the events, most of the UNP members publicly expressed their regret supporting a common candidate in 2015 and promised to field their own presidential candidate in 2019 elections.

Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was the obvious choice for the candidacy and he reportedly expressed his intentions to run for the presidency in a meeting with other senior members[15]. Meanwhile several rebel MPs including Mangala Samaraweera, Harin Fernando, Ajith Perera, Harsha de Silva, Sujeewa Senasinghe wanted deputy leader Sajith Premadasa as the candidate and organized a rally in badulla where Sajith himself openly expressed his intentions to be the UNP candidate[31]

With the growing support for the deputy leader Sajith Premadasa and party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe refusing to make a move, Speaker of the parliament Karu Jayasuriya released a statement signalling his intention to run for presidency to end the confusion and avoid a rift within the party[32] However the Sajith faction gained strong support from the fellow party members through another two successful rallies in Matara[33], Kurunegala[34] Matugama[35].

On 26 September 2019, Working committee of United National Party unanimously decided Sajith Premadasa as the UNP presidential candidate. Announcing the official statement, general Secretary of the UNP Akila Viraj Kariyawasam told that Ranil Wickremesinghe will continue to function as the Prime Minister and the Leader of the UNP.

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)

President and leader of the SLFP Maithripala Sirisena is eligible to run for a second term. Although he has previously stated, after being sworn in in 2015, that he would only serve the single term, he has since expressed his desire to stay on for a second term.[36][37] However with many party seniors choose to support newly formed Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna led by former SLFP leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, SLFP got weakened and suffered a heavy loss in 2018 Sri Lankan local elections, thus losing the credibility it had as the main opposition force to the UNP.

SLFP is currently having discussions with SLPP to form an alliance to support SLPP candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is looking to run for the first time. Its leadership has said that "only Mahinda Rajapaksa could decide on the next presidential candidate..." and therefore is most likely to be a Rajapaksa sibling with Chamal, Basil and Gotabhaya being mentioned as credible prospects.[38][39] Calls for Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to run have been made though he is ineligible due to his possession of foreign citizenship.[40] Basil Rajapaksa also holds foreign citizenship and is therefore ineligible.[38] On 12 January he announced he was ready to run in the elections if he had the support for it.[41][42] Though his announcement stunned senior SLPP leaders who did not know beforehand. Gotabaya Rajapaksa has several cases against him being heard in courts and is also due to stand trial with a Special High Court on the misappropriation of funds for the D. A. Rajapaksa Museum where he is accused of misappropriating state funds amounting to over Rs 40 million. The trial is due to begin on 31 January, pushed back from the 22nd.[43][44][45][46][47]

Chamal Rajapaksa has also signalled his potential candidacy saying that he would "willingly consider it if the party nominates him as the next Presidential Candidate", soon after the announcement of his brother. Chamal Rajapaksa has not decided whether to contest from the SLFP or the SLPP but prefers a candidate that has the support of both.[48][43][47]

In March Chamal denied that neither him nor Basil would contest but avoided commenting about Gotabhaya while the SLPP announced that they favour Gotabhaya unless someone better is found. [49]

Gotabhaya already had a well organized campaign promoting him and according to D. B. S Jeyraj the Rajapaksa family has chosen to support Gotabhaya as the candidate and is renouncing his US citizenship. [50]

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, on 27 April, 6 days after the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, announced his candidacy for president.[10] On 11 August Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Sri Lanka Podujana Party officially announces his brother Gotabhaya to be its presidential candidate, while Mahinda runs as his Prime Ministerial candidate.[11][51][52]

Individuals who have publicly expressed interest

Individuals in this section have expressed an interest in running for president, or have strong support from others, within the last six months.


Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

The National People’s Power Movement announced Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka as the candidate in a massive rally on 18 August in the Galle Face.[56][57]

Candidates

Record 35 candidates have submitted their nominations on 7th October to the election commission[58]

Candidate Party and symbol Backed By Notes
1
Sajith Premadasa
New Democratic Front 		United National Party

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

All Ceylon Makkal Congress

Jathika Hela Urumaya

Tamil Progressive Alliance

Son of Former President of Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa

Deputy leader of United National Party (2014-present)

Minister of Housing Construction and Cultural Affairs (2015-present)

Deputy Minister of Health (2001-2004)

2
Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa.jpg
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna 		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna

Sri Lanka Freedom Party

Mahajana Eksath Peramuna

Jathika Nidahas Peramuna

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya

Eelam People's Democratic Party

Democratic Left Front

Communist Party of Sri Lanka

Brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa

Secretary for the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development (2005-2015)

3
File:AnuraKumara.jpg
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka 		National People's Power Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

National Front for Good Governance (NFGG)

Leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (2014-present)

Chief Opposition whip (2015-2018)

4 Mahesh Senanayake National People's Party National People’s Movement Former Commander of Sri Lanka Army (2017-2019)
5
Candidate photo.jpg
Ajantha Perera 		Socialist Party of Sri Lanka Founder, National Programme on Recycling of Solid Waste [59][60]
6 Rohan Pallewatte National Development Front Abhiman Lanka[61] Executive Chairman of Lanka Harness Co. (Pvt) Ltd
7 Duminda Nagamuwa Frontline Socialist Party Propaganda Secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party.

Contested in 2015 Presidential election receiving 9,941 votes.

8 Jayantha Ketagoda Independent
9 Siripala Amarasinghe[62] Independent
10 Aparekke Punnananda Thero Independent
11 Saman Perera Our Power of People Party
12 Ariyawansa Dissanayake Democratic United National Front
13 Sirithunga Jayasuriya United Socialist Party
14 Milroy Fernando Independent
15 Bedde Gamage Nandimithra Nava Sama Samaja Party
16 Vajirapani Wijesiriwardene Socialist Equality Party
17 Sarath Manamendra Nawa Sihala Urumaya
18 A. S. P. Liyanage Sri Lanka Labour Party
19 Samansiri Herath Independent
20 Sarath Keerthirathna Independent
21 Anuruddha Polgampola Independent
22 Samaraweera Weeravanni Independent
23 Ashoka Wadigamangawa Independent
24 Battaramulle Seelarathana Thero Jana Setha Peramuna
25 Illiyas Idroos Mohamed Independent
26 Piyasiri Wijenayake Independent
27 Rajiva Wijesinha Independent
28 Aruna De soyza Democratic National Movement
29 Ajantha de zoysa Ruhunu Janatha Peramuna
30 Namal Rajapaksa Nationalities Unity Organization
31 M. K. Shivajilingam Independent
32 M. L. A. M. Hizbullah Independent
33 Priyantha Edirisinghe Okkoma Wesiyo Okkoma Rajawaru Sanwidhanaya
34 Hassan Mohamed Alavi Independent
35 Subramanium Gunaratnam Our National Front

See also

Notes

  1. ^ New Democratic Front candidate led by the United National Party
  2. ^ United National Front for Good Governance figures
  3. ^ The SLMC contested separately in 46 LA's and with the UNF in other LA's.

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