Sri Lanka’s Election Conundrum: System Change And Local Government Election – OpEd

Sri Lanka has an election problem. In 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a political novice with no elected office experience, contested to become president of the country. His qualification entailed two significant factors.

One, he was a brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was loved by most of the Sinhala masses....