The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (

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SLPFA; ; ) was a

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led by the

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna The Sri Lanka People's Front (; ), commonly known by its Sinhalese name Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), is a political party in Sri Lanka. It was the ruling party in Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022 and was the largest party in Parliament of Sr ...

formed in 2019. Initially, the alliance consisted of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the

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(SLFP) and fifteen smaller parties. Since 5 April 2022, the alliance has been functionally dissolved, after many of the SLPP's former allies left the SLFPA to join the opposition amidst the Sri Lankan economic crisis and

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History

On 31 October 2019, seventeen parties including the SLPP and SLFP signed an agreement at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in

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to form the Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance. The seventeen parties included: The alliance supported SLPP candidate

Gotabaya Rajapaksa Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, (; ; born 20 June 1949) was a Sri Lankan politician and military officer who served as the eighth President of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his Resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, resignation on 14 July 202 ...

in the 2019 presidential election. It had planned to contest the 2020 parliamentary election under the chair symbol, the symbol of a previous SLFP-led alliance, the

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. However, in February 2020 the alliance chose to contest the election under the flower bud symbol of the SLPP. On 5 April 2022, amidst the Sri Lankan economic crisis and

, many of the SLPP's former allies left the SLFPA to join the opposition.

Electoral history

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