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Those who voted against, or abstained, have no fundamental disagreements with the International Monetary Fund demands but are cynically attempting to capitalise on the rising mass opposition.
Tamils and Muslims in the north and east participated in the mass hartal, while union bureaucrats in Colombo prevented unified nationwide actions.
About 60 people, including fishermen, farmers, daily wage workers, youth and housewives listened to SEP candidates outline the party’s socialist program.
Social discrimination that Tamil people suffer in Sinhala-majority Sri Lanka finds expression in the Catholic Church too