Sri Lanka’s Economic and Political Crises Continue
Deep Dish on Global Affairs
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What Is the Nature of the Treelank of Democracy?
i want to talk a little about the forces that drove him out of power. He was only elected president two and a half years ago, and in 20 20 his party won this huge landslide victory in parliament. The way they came to office was on a very singular chauvenist, nationalist agenda and nationalist campaign. But what proved was that he may have been a very successful defense secretarytouh, but he was certainly a failure as a president because he simply could not handle the economic crisis That was looming. And he rejected he had his head stuck in the sand.
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